You walk on eggshells, you’ve read on communication, but no matter what you do or say, your partner gets defensive and you’re to blame for it. You’ve tried couples counseling, but your partner feels the therapist is siding with you over them and will no longer go. You could be dealing with a personality disorder.

A common misunderstanding between men and women stems from a woman’s desire for collaborative influence and a man’s desire to be trusted as competent.

Men often take offense and unnecessarily get defensive over things that women didn’t mean.

Have you ever wondered why interdependent relationships are so hard? This is why…

If your relationship is unhealthy, look to excise these and replace them with better alternatives.

What distinguishes a narcissist from a sociopath from a psychopath?

There are some things no relationship—certainly no marriage—can do without.

Contempt is the greatest predictor of divorce. Do you know what it is how it’s formed, and how it is overcome?

Abuse, Narcissism, Borderline, and individual therapy all provide insights into understanding relationships dysfunction. And from all of those insights, necessary self-protective boundaries might be drawn. However, there are limits to each for properly identifying and effectively changing unhealthy relationship dynamics into healthy ones.

As relationship expert, Terry Real, has said, “You can be right, or you can be in relationship.” Research by The Gottman Institute supports this notion.

We’re not responsible for others’ feelings, and they’re not responsible for our’s, but we’re both responsible for how we influence each other.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), despite it’s clinical and mysterious sound, it quite familiar and absolutely essential to functioning well in life and in relationships.