A Successful Relationship Looks Like This
While recently browsing a national UK newspaper, I came across an article concerning a comment made by Barack Obama concerning the questions you might ask yourself about a potential partner...
How To Spot The Manipulator In Your Life (And How To Keep Them Out)
When used in relationships, the term “manipulation” describes activities undertaken by an individual to try to exert influence over others, frequently in a damaging or deceitful manner.
Watch the “Red Flags” In The Honeymoon Period
In my daily work with codependents, I hear a lot about so-called "red-flags". Usually this comes when clients are describing the early stages of a relationship they were or are in...
Views On Infidelity In Perspective
Just recently, infidelity in marriages has been a big topic with some of my clients. It has happened and they are struggling with the aftermath of it. Some have separated, some have separated to try to see if there can be a basis for renewal of the relationship...
Your Couple Type Is Determined By Your Attachment Style
So frequently, when we enter a new relationship, we view it as a blank sheet and tell ourselves, I'm going to do it my way. However, as youngsters, we absorb information like sponges — we can't help but take in how our parents behaved and what happened in our own family.
The Practice Of Mindful Communication
We need to communicate with people every day unless we live in complete solitude. Depending on the circumstances, it might be something we do on a regular basis...
Obsessed With That Certain Someone? Look To Developmental Issues
It’s is very often that I come across clients who are obsessed with someone. The level of obsession is so high that it often means that normal life cannot carry on without some form of validation...
Relationships: What I Have Learned From My Marriage (So Far)
There are all different kinds of couples and different ways of being in a relationship. I am in what I can call a mixed marriage with Inass, my wife. We come from different cultures and we see the world in a different way, sometimes a very different way...
Couples Therapy: A Codependency Case Study
Therapy as a couple is hard and there are few guarantees. Many factors determine success or failure. Timing, willingness, the right therapist all come into play...
Four Ways To Communicate Effectively With Your Partner
Couples come into therapy for many reasons but one thing they mostly all share in common is an inability to communicate with each other effectively...
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