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…
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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…
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…
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…
My Girlfriend Broke Up With Me And I Don’t Think I Can Live Without Her
I have recently broken up with my girlfriend. We were together for three and a half years and the hardest bit about it is that we hardly ever argued and…
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 Be The Mother You Would Have Liked Your Mother To Be
June is Children’s Awareness Month, so it feels like a good time to think about motherhood and how to be the mother you most want to be to your children.…
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…