Saturday, August 17, 2024

How Deep Rooted Insecurity Can Affect Your Ability to Initiate Intimacy in Your Relationship

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Deep rooted insecurity can create sexual problems, including problems with sexual initiation.  See my articles:  How Your Attachment Style C...
Sunday, August 11, 2024

Improving Communication in Your Relationship: Ask Your Partner, "Do You Want to Be Helped, Heard or Hugged?"

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In recent months I've been doing a series of articles about improving communication in relationships.   Ask Your Partner What They Need ...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

The 5 Stages of a Relationship Ending

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I wrote about the stages of love in a prior article (see my article:  The 5 Stages of Love From Attraction to Commitment ). In the current a...
Friday, July 19, 2024

Relationships: Respond to Your Partner with Emotional Attunement and Validation Before You Try to Solve the Problem

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There's a relationship dynamic I often see in my psychotherapy office when I'm working with couples:  One partner talks about their ...
Sunday, July 14, 2024

Relationships: Sharing the Mental Load

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A common complaint I hear from heterosexual women in my psychotherapy practice in New York City is that they feel exhausted by the mental lo...

Relationship Expectations: What is the "Good Enough" Relationship? No, It Doesn't Mean "Settling"

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According to Dr. John Gottman, author and world-renowned relationship expert, you're more likely to have the kind of relationship you wa...