Everyone Looks To Me To Keep Everything Together. It’s Exhausting!
I am a 42-year-old mother of two and I am finding it increasingly stressful to maintain what I think of as “the smiling face of Mum” during the Covid-19 crisis.…
Relationships
How To Handle Mother’s Day When You’re Without A Mother
Mother’s Day is a day set aside for celebrating mothers, but not everyone has a mother to celebrate with. It might be that their mother has passed away, was never…
Surviving Your Parents’ Divorce
According to UK government statistics, 42% of marriages end in divorce, with the most common age bracket being 45-49 years old. Furthermore, the same statistics predict that 60% of marriages…
Three Common Myths About Sex Therapy
It can feel like a huge step to begin to think about having sex and relationship therapy. The first step may be admitting that something isn’t right in your relationship…
My Fiancée Cheated On Me
My fiancée was working on a ship as a singer for seven months. Our relationship was really strong, but in the last month of her time away on the ship,…
I Have Very Low Self-Esteem After A Breakup
I have just broken up with someone I was in a same-sex relationship with for 10 years. The relationship was difficult, there was little emotional and physical intimacy. At first…
The Top Questions Sex Therapists Get Asked
We may be surrounded by sex, love and romance in all its forms – in TV, films and advertisements. Yet, when it comes to discussing sex publicly or privately, many…
Being In a Relationship With Someone With ADHD
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is usually diagnosed in childhood or adolescence, but the symptoms don’t just disappear in adulthood. Many people have partners who struggle with attention deficit hyperactivity…
Four Strategies To Help You Heal Conflict In Your Relationship
Conflict can be an inevitable part of being in a committed relationship. You’re not always going to see eye to eye on everything, and rows can blow up from time…
Growing Up Too Quickly: Parentified Children
What is Parentification? Parentification was defined by Boszormenyi-Nagy & Spark in 1973 as being the distortion or lack of boundaries between and among family subsystems, such that children take on…