Relationships are the pillar of human behaviour. Find out how to create the healthiest and happiest bonds. Learn how to effectively manage difficulties with your partner or family. Improve your quality of life today with all these details about social psychology, family psychology, or approaches based in couple therapy.
The four aspects of love in Buddhism were described by Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh in a short book titled: True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart. In this book, the author doesn’t just talk about romantic love but all…
Sometimes you devote yourself to loving someone without stopping to get to know yourself, to value yourself, and to learn to love yourself. The problem is that when you don’t love yourself or know yourself, the relationships you have with…
Love is a feeling we experience towards another person, someone to whom we wish all the best in life and we’re deeply connected t0. However, there’s a harsh truth to this: loving someone doesn’t mean you’ll get the same in…
Some people think that life as a couple requires spending most of the time with the other person. But, in reality, there are many other ways of experiencing a relationship. Sometimes, preserving independence in a relationship can be the key…
Houdini syndrome refers to the escapism acts from the mythical Hungarian-born American escapist, Harry Houdini. However, in this article, you’ll read about the psychological escapism triggered by avoidance. This is when people escape from family gatherings, jobs, and daily duties.…
Combating emotional dependence isn’t easy, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Breaking the chains that bind you to another person, setting boundaries, and doing solo activities are strategies that will help you gain autonomy in your relationship. Now, it’s important…
Love will always be a mystery, and that’s part of what makes it so attractive. We still don’t fully understand the reasons why we fall in love with some people and not others. The 2005 study published in the Journal…
Eating disorders are disturbances or alterations of behavior linked to food and, therefore, to its ingestion. These are maintained in the long term and entail a deterioration in the physical health of a person. In addition, there’s deterioration of their…
In this article, we’ll be talking about Leon Festinger’s famous theory of cognitive dissonance. For this particular article, we’re going to study it in the context of an emotionally dependent relationship. We decided to do it due to all the…
The loss of a loved one is always complicated. But what happens when that loss occurs during pregnancy? Today, we’d like to tell you about perinatal grief. We see it fit to shed some light on a nearly invisible topic…
Emotional dependence is created by a very intense and immature attachment to a specific person. That person is usually a partner, which is often put on a pedestal and idealized. Emotionally dependent people believe that there’s no way they could…
Being in a relationship with a partner with alexithymia can be extremely difficult because one of the main characteristics of this condition is lack of empathy. If your significant other has alexithymia, you won’t get the emotional validation or authentic…
Similar or complementary? That’s the question that many people ask when looking for a partner. While some think that “opposites attract”, others want to avoid the conflicts that differences can cause at all costs. The truth is that both have…
Has anyone ever accused you of being too trusting? Many people are under the impression that trusting other people is a bad thing. However, are others allowed to call you “naive” for placing your trust in people? The answer is…
The way people communicate is changing all the time. This affects nearly every facet of your day-to-day life. It’s no surprise, then, that people’s intimate and erotic lives have also been affected by these changes. One of these phenomena is…
Virginia Satir was an American therapist that reinvented family therapy. In fact, nowadays she’s considered one of the most important figures in the history of systemic therapy. She created the Satir Change Model that experts still use to this day,…
Not many years ago, an ancient sex manual was auctioned in the United Kingdom. Few people knew about its existence since the book was forbidden in the 17th century. Why? The same reason as always: sex was, and still is,…
In this article, we’ll be talking about a new way of understanding a committed relationship: I’m me, you’re you, and then there’s us. Society believes in idyllic patterns and dynamics in relationships. This is a fantasy that, precisely because it’s…
Emotional detox is a necessary step in the healing process after a breakup, as a breakup can lead to other events that can make you doubt everything and everybody and make you feel angry. Although ignoring your pain can work…
LGBT violence is the type of violence that occurs within a same-sex couple. This type of aggression, as in any other form of gender and domestic violence, is when one partner controls or dominates the other. This is how the…
