Seeking and keeping good, healthy, supportive relationships is a natural, central, and primary need for human beings. The need for caring relationships starts in infancy and continues throughout our lives. Somehow in our culture we’ve gotten the idea that we’re always supposed to be independent and self sufficient. But turning to and relying on others is healthy thing and one …
Couples and Relationships
Understanding Relationships: The Science of Attachment
Whether you are single, just dating, or in a committed long-term relationship, relationships can sometimes be confusing and puzzling things. Seemingly small interactions can send us spiraling into overpowering emotions. Why haven’t they returned my text? Why are they so clingy? Attachment theory gives us a key to understanding the very powerful dynamics at work, and to better …
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Vital Skills For A Healthy Relationship
Working as a couple and marriage counselor in San Francisco, it is clear that one of the realities of being in a long-term, intimate relationship is that there are going to be disagreements and fights. For some reason one of our common experiences in being human is that we find differences in other people very annoying. And as much as we may love someone, differences will come …
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