When you fall into a jealousy trap, you can feel like your emotions have been hijacked and you have absolutely no control over them. Jealousy can come up with friends, family members, co-workers and of course, intimate partners. It can blindside you over something small […]
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When you don’t feel very important to your partner anymore and it’s driving you crazy, you can end up saying and doing all kinds of things that just make your partner pull even further away from you. Whether your partner believes that he or she
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As Valentine’s Day rolls around again, we all have a great opportunity to glimpse new possibilities for more love. For one day, we express love and appreciation in various ways to the important people in our lives. What if these expressions of love were possible
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I had never thought of myself as a liar or a people pleaser but one Saturday afternoon I was forced to consider that maybe I was both without even realizing it. What triggered this realization happened sometime in the early 80’s, as I was sitting
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People-pleasing is often so unconscious that we don’t know we’re damaging our relationships. Here’s why it’s important to recognize and stop it…
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Annette was stuck. She felt like she’d been a pushover all her life in her family growing up and now it was the same with her new husband. In the past, when she’d tried to stand up for herself, she felt like she either came
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The other day, I was in a book discussion group, talking about the well-researched book The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee when I got really triggered. I became very uncomfortable when every comment I seemed to make in the discussion was “wrong” according to
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Brett and Sally had been married for 20 years and lately they seemed to be going in different directions without knowing how to fix it. He was spending more time at work, with his buddies and taking care of his parents than he did with
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Monica silently ground her teeth as she once again tried to please everyone in her family and believe that inner voice that shamed her if she didn’t. Her thoughts ran something like this… “I should take dinner to my mom because she’s lonely.” “I should
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Respect or lack of respect is one of the biggest relationship complaints. Here are 3 ways to have more of it in your life and relationships…
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