Your Guide to Helping Someone with Anger Issues
Anger is a perfectly normal emotion, and something that can actually be helpful for mental health. It helps us to identify things that are hurting us, or situations in which…
Couples
How Does Your Early Attachment Style Impact Your Current Relationships?
What Are Attachment Styles? Attachment theory was first developed by John Bowlby in the 1950s, and developed by others such as Mary Ainsworth in the 1970s. Attachment theory is the…
Relationships: How Are Dating Apps Affecting Our Connection With People?
More and more people are now meeting their partners or potential partners online rather than meeting through friends, at work, or on a night out. From the first newspaper personal…
Our Youngest Son Is Off To Uni, And I’m Worried Our Relationship Will Fall Apart
We have three boys and the youngest is about to go off to college, and I am worried about how my partner and I are going to be once we…
How To Cope With The Loneliness Of Being Single
Being Single in the 21st Century First of all, to be single in the 21st century is completely and utterly ordinary. In fact, in the U.S. there are nearly as…
How To Cope With A Masochistic Partner
Being in a relationship with someone masochistic can be incredibly trying and frustrating. If all they want to do is beat themselves up – and anything positive you say or…
What To Do If The Physical Intimacy Disappears From Your Relationship
Whether it is you or your partner who has lost interest in physical intimacy, this is a very distressing place to be. Loss of, or lowered desire, in one partner…
Our New Baby Means We Have No Time To Be A Couple
My partner and I really struggle to find time for our relationship. We have a baby and a toddler that keep us very busy. The baby is still waking every…
My Partner Suddenly Announced He Doesn’t Want Kids
I am 37 and have been with my boyfriend for six years. Since we first met we have talked about the fact that we both want children, we’ve even discussed…
Relationships: How To Tell If You’re Counter-Dependent
The term ‘co-dependent’ is one you may be familiar with: a co-dependent person is generally defined as someone in relationship who is needy and clingy, and whose life pretty much…