We're often in a position of deeply hoping that someone on whom we depend might change: become (perhaps) less defensive or less angry, kinder or more thought...

When we become parents, the meaning of the saying that parenting is the hardest but most rewarding job you will ever have becomes intimately felt. Indeed, th...

Like many things that help our relationships, couples therapy has a habit of sounding appallingly unromantic, involving patience, grueling work and a host of...

Gaslighting is used by an abuser to gain more power by making the victim question their reality.

According to Dr. Esther Perel, all our relational conflicts at home or at home stem from three main hidden issues: Power & Control; Closeness & Care; and Res...

In her interview on NPR and TED Talk "Rethinking Infidelity." couples therapist and world leading expert in cheating and infidelity, Dr. Esther Perel, point...

Attachment theory refers to a set of ideas formulated by psychologists in the 1960s that gives us an exceptionally useful guide to how we behave in relations...

However old we might be, none of us is ever quite emotionally mature - but having a list to hand of what maturity consists of might be a way of keeping score...