Are You Enabling Your Partner’s Destructive Habits
Are You Enabling Your Partner’s Destructive Habits? Enabling involves helping another person avoid the consequences of their negative behaviors such as addiction or gambling. Enablers inadvertently support their partners by helping the negative behaviors to continue. This can create a crumbling, unhealthy relationship. Enabling can hurt both you and your partner! Watch out for these […]
15 Ways To Protect Your Wellbeing By Being Kind To Yourself
15 Ways to Protect Your Wellbeing by Being Kind to Yourself How do you react when you’re faced with circumstances beyond your control or you fall short of your own expectations? You might be tempted to become harsh with yourself. You try to whip yourself into shape, thinking that will help you to overcome the […]
What Albert Einstein Can Teach Your Kids About Confidence
What Albert Einstein Can Teach Your Kids About Confidence Psychologists often describe confidence as a person’s belief in their own ability to succeed. Naturally, every parent would like their child to be self-confident. However, what seems to challenge parents the most is striking a healthy balance when encouraging confidence. They want to nurture their child’s […]
Courtship Clues That Can Affect Your Future Marriage
Courtship Clues That Can Affect Your Future Marriage Your courtship can show warning signs about your future marriage. It can provide clues and red flags about your relationship. What can your courtship reveal about your partner? Romantic courtships. Contrary to popular belief, extremely romantic courtships are not a guarantee that the relationship will last. […]
Signs That You’re In a Codependent Relationship
Signs That You’re in a Codependent Relationship Love is unselfish, but how far would you go for your beloved? You might be in a codependent relationship if there is an imbalance of power in the relationship. Codependency is when you are dependent on someone else for your own self-worth. In codependent relationships, one person is […]
Attachment Theory in Relationships
Attachment Theory in Relationships Have you ever jumped from relationship to relationship every few months, wondering why you can’t find the perfect partner? Or maybe you’ve been left wondering why the partners you choose are always emotionally unavailable. What if you knew that your relationship choices and the way you attach to others has been […]
6 Tricks to Stop Anxious Thoughts in their Tracks
6 Tricks to Stop Anxious Thoughts in Their Tracks Do you have racing thoughts and anxiety? It’s hard to focus on anything else when anxiety takes control of your mind. You’re filled with worries and uncertainties. You can’t calm down or rest. Fortunately, there are ways to control anxious thoughts, and it just takes practice […]
Strategies for Happily Blended Families
9 Strategies for Happily Blended Families If you live in a blended household, you almost certainly recognize the dedication and stamina needed for a happy home. Although many families struggle through years of challenging communication, you can use specific strategies to help yours relate and function more peacefully. You may already have learned some techniques […]
Picking Up the Pieces After Divorce
Roughly half of marriages in the U.S. end in divorce. Most people understand the risks that marriage brings, but no one gets married with the expectation of dealing with divorce. Divorce ranks as one of the most stressful situations anyone can go through. Dealing with a divorce is no small matter. It requires patience and […]
How to Prevent Stonewalling in Your Relationship
Have you ever been in an argument with your partner that just keeps getting more and more intense? Everything said seems like the same thing over and over again. And then the argument escalates to the point where one partner completely withdraws, pushing the other way. It’s like a stone wall was built to solve […]