Thoughts From a Therapist
Love
Posts about what love is, how to find it, and how to keep it
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What Makes Your Partner Feel Loved? The Pathways to Importance
People feel loved in very different ways. A therapist’s map of the pathways to importance – from desire and felt safety to being truly…
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How to Make Your Partner Feel Important: The Attachment Habit Most Couples Miss
The foundation of a secure relationship isn’t better conflict repair – it’s consistently helping your partner feel important. A therapist on the maintenance habit…
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What Is a Long-Term Relationship For?
Most of us know what we want from a relationship, but few of us stop to examine what a long-term partnership is actually for.…
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Love, Acceptance, and Growth | What Real Love Actually Asks of Us
Love involves more than blind acceptance; it requires balance between acceptance and growth. Authentic love respects individual uniqueness while also encouraging partners to develop…
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Relationship feel stuck? Try pretending that you don’t know everything about your partner
So what is the solution… pretend that you don’t know your partner at all… the more that you can honestly engage in this suggestion…
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What is empathy? How do I know if I am experiencing empathy?
Quick summary – Empathy is when a person opens up their emotional boundaries and allows another person’s feeling to be cradled and nurtured within…
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What is Love? How do I know if I am in love or have experienced love? Love is selflessness and felt security… love is also a physical and emotional feeling
Quick summary: The reason that love is so difficult to define has much to do with the fact that the word “love” means far…
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