Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. She talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and Read More
Differentiation
09 Oct What you need to know about intimate relationships
Do you wish you had insight into intimate relationships? Do you find yourself wishing it wasn’t so hard? Do you believe that if you were with the right partner these difficulties wouldn’t be happening? Do you know what relationship problems everyone Read More
24 Jul Contracts in relationships
Contracts in relationships exist between every couple. They can be explicit and talked about, or implicit and assumed. If not talked about, they’re based on hidden assumptions. These hidden assumptions are usually wrong because they're formed Read More
07 Oct Improve your own dancing first
We need to improve our own dancing first if we want to be an exceptional team. As a partner in a relationship, every one of us is involved in an intricate dance. Especially when we’re on different pages from each other, we try all sorts of steps Read More
23 Jul Do you have normal relationship conflicts?
Normal relationship conflicts come from the many core stresses, opposing values or “dialectical tensions” found in every relationship. These tensions never go away. They are normal real-life discrepancies in wants and needs which are a part of every Read More
12 Dec A Time to Review Relationships
This is the time of year to review relationships. Two sets of feelings may be competing for your attention. First, you may be looking ahead with pleasure to the holiday season and the myriad of tasks, opportunities to connect and relationships to Read More
15 Jun Why Relationships Benefit from Not Talking
Last month, after a few very busy weeks of talking in my counselling practice combined with the end-of-term strain of teaching counselling to students who were worried about their assessments, a sore throat caught up with me. Every time I spoke for Read More
