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The Emotional Needs Couples Often Expect Their Partners to Simply Know

Many couples come into my office carrying the same quiet frustration: “If I matter to you, why d...

Weaponized Incompetence and the Mental Load in Relationships

Weaponized incompetence is a popular term for doing a shared task badly, or saying you cannot do...

How Past Trauma Can Show Up in Your Relationship

Past trauma can show up in a relationship as sudden strong reactions, pulling away from closenes...

Signs of Emotional Abuse in a Relationship

Emotional abuse is a pattern of non-physical behavior used to control, isolate or frighten a par...

Questions to Ask Your Partner to Feel Closer

Good questions to ask your partner are open, personal and asked when you both have time to liste...

Online Couples Therapy by Video: How It Works, Step by Step

Online couples therapy is a live, scheduled session with a licensed therapist over video. At spi...

Living With a Partner Who Has Narcissistic Traits

Living with a partner who has narcissistic traits often means feeling unseen, criticized or blam...

Micro-Cheating: What It Is and When It Really Matters

Micro-cheating is a popular term for small behaviors that lean toward someone outside your relat...

Gray Divorce: Why Long Marriages End After 50, and What Can Help

Gray divorce means divorce after age 50. In the United States it roughly doubled between 1990 an...

Gaslighting in Relationships: How to Recognize It and What to Do

Gaslighting is a form of emotional abuse in which a partner repeatedly makes you doubt your own ...

Falling Out of Love: Is It Over, or Is Something Else Going On?

Falling out of love often means the intense early stage has faded, not that the relationship is ...

Emotional Intimacy: What It Is and How Couples Build It

Emotional intimacy is the sense that your partner knows the real you and responds with care. Res...

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