How hyper-independence and the fear of getting hurt can trick us into choosing isolation over intimacy.
Sex & Relationships
The Man Who Called My Burnout a Doorway
When healing language becomes a trap, your instincts may be the only way out.
When healing language becomes a trap, your instincts may be the only way out.
Young Women Be Careful With the Guys You Date!
She trusted him with everything unknowingly, he turned her into a product and sold her to strangers.
She trusted him with everything unknowingly, he turned her into a product and sold her to strangers.
Narcissists Don’t Grieve the Deaths of Their Supply
I saw firsthand what a narcissist does after their primary source of supply dies.
I saw firsthand what a narcissist does after their primary source of supply dies.
Your Nervous System Chose Your Partner — Not Your Heart
What feels like chemistry is sometimes just familiarity wearing a beautiful disguise.
What feels like chemistry is sometimes just familiarity wearing a beautiful disguise.
Here Are the Qualities You Can’t Teach Your Partner
Four things to look for before you fall too deep.
Four things to look for before you fall too deep.
Levels of Intimacy in Communication
Does texting betray a fear of intimacy?
Does texting betray a fear of intimacy?
5 Habits of Attractive Online People
Ever met someone who acts as if reality is negotiable?
Ever met someone who acts as if reality is negotiable?
What Men Don’t Say When They’ve Been Cheated On
There is a particular cruelty in the way our culture frames male betrayal.
There is a particular cruelty in the way our culture frames male betrayal.
How to Stop Playing the Blame Game and Actually Feel Peaceful
Blaming someone else for your own behavior and reactions, has many consequences, and none of them help you, or anyone else.
Blaming someone else for your own behavior and reactions, has many consequences, and none of them help you, or anyone else.
He Brought Flowers. I Was Angry.
How perfect do we expect love to be?
How perfect do we expect love to be?
The Day I Realized I Didn’t Want Her Back — I Wanted the Way She Made Life Feel
Sometimes you don’t miss the person. Sometimes you miss the version of yourself that existed when they were there.
Sometimes you don’t miss the person. Sometimes you miss the version of yourself that existed when they were there.
What Happens When You Refuse to Argue with a Narcissist
No debate. No defense. Just a blank wall. Their worst nightmare.
No debate. No defense. Just a blank wall. Their worst nightmare.
Your Partner Reads the State Your System is Broadcasting, Not Your Good Intentions.
You feel profoundly misunderstood.
You feel profoundly misunderstood.
Women Want and Need Men to Succeed at Relationships
No one likes rejection.
No one likes rejection.
I’m No Longer Afraid of Being “Behind” in Life
In a world obsessed with speed, I’m finally learning the power of walking at my own pace.
In a world obsessed with speed, I’m finally learning the power of walking at my own pace.