5 Ways To Cultivate Better Instincts In Your Dating Life
Do you ever struggle to hear your inner voice or figure out what you really want? Or are you the type of person who tends to always second-guess yourself and can never just trust your gut? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may have a boundary challenge, and yes, this can interrupt […]
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The One Habit That Blows Relationship Conflicts Out Of Proportion
Relationships have the potential to not only be a source of joy but can also open doorways to the kind of healing and growth that is difficult to accomplish on our own. This is also precisely what makes relationships so hard. No one else can push our buttons in quite the same way. A partner […]
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Why You Are Prone To Dating Similar People Over and Over Again
Curious fact: My current romantic partner and my last long-term partner have the same birthday. They also both enjoy the same weird improv show (my ex has seen the Chicago performance dozens of times, including several times with me; my current partner happens to adore the troupe’s New York branch and independently brought it up […]
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Why People Fake Orgasms, Based On Their Personality
It might not shock you to hear that people fake orgasms. How frequently it happens, however, just might. Oodles of studies and literature over the years show that anywhere from 25 to 75% of people have pretended to have an orgasm (or greatly embellished one) at some point in their lives. What’s less clear is why we do it. […]
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How Happy Are Second Marriages? What Research Discovers To Us
Going through an unhappy marriage and subsequent divorce can really alter your entire understanding of relationships, the sometimes fantasy-like meanings and expectations we assign to them, and what’s really practical. To feel this sense of skepticism is only normal after your experiences. Ah, but then there’s that exceedingly unpractical thing called love, which can always […]
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The One Practice That Can Quell Any Fight In Your Relationship
Mindfulness seems to be popping up everywhere these days. In therapy, it can be used as a technique to help patients be aware of what is going on around them as well as what they are experiencing internally in the present moment to help them achieve a state of calm as well as to be less critical of […]
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4 Easy Ways To Flush Toxicity Out Of Your Relationship
Even the healthiest relationships have arguments. Frankly, I worry more about couples who never argue. When couples first start out, they tend to de-emphasize communication hiccups. Over time, if this continues, the lack of connection, growth, and understanding that comes from positive communication skills can begin to erode a couple’s bond, leaving them feeling unfulfilled […]
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Reasons Empaths Tend To Date The Wrong People
Have you ever found yourself dating the same type of person, and it never works out? Or been head-over-heels in love, but then when you break up, you suddenly can’t figure out how you fell for the person in the first place? I spent years dating the wrong people—repeatedly. I ended up in familiar scenarios that left […]
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5 Steps To Achieving Deeper, More Connected Sex
The path to soulful sex starts with you. And even once you have done the work on yourself and have called in your lover, the work doesn’t stop there. In fact, the next layer gets peeled back. This is because when you’re with your soulmate, there’s nowhere to hide; you don’t let each other hide. […]
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How To Sustain Your Relationship When You Both Suffer From Depression
One in six people will experience depression at some point in their life, according to the American Psychiatric Association. That means it’s not totally unlikely that two people with depression can end up in a relationship with each other. As rates of depression continue to rise worldwide, so, too, do these double-depression relationships. Dating with depression […]
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