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How the Wrong Images of Love Can Ruin Our Lives
The Romantic view of relationships doesn’t merely produce bad art. It’s extremely dangerous as a guide to life.
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When Love Isn’t Easy
You’re up in the middle of the night and once again, you’re in trouble in love…
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Why We All End Up Marrying Our Parents
Psychoanalysis doesn’t merely insist that we will marry someone like our parent. It also proposes that what we really want to do is to give the story with a parent-type figure a different ending.
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Many relationships will help to keep you sane; a few varieties have the power – and we’re not being hyperbolic…
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The Miseries of Push-Pull Relationships
There is a kind of relationship proverbially known as the push-pull relationship, in which an ostensibly loving couple constantly ends…
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On Picking a Socially Unsuitable Partner
For most of human history, the idea of picking a socially suitable partner was at the forefront of our considerations…
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How the Unfinished Business of Childhood is Played Out in Relationships
One of the strangest, most potentially depressing but important realisations we can ever make about relationships is that, without any…
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The Stages of Development – And What If We Miss Out on One…
One of the stranger aspects of the way we’re built is that we need to go through a number of…
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A Way To Break Logjams In A Couple
At moments of particular fury and despair with our partners, there’s an exercise we might perform that stands a chance…
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How to Sustain Love: A Tool
A paradox hovers in the background of most relationships: we are in a couple in order to feel close, closer…
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A Guide For The Recovering Avoidant
‘Avoidant’ is the term usefully coined by attachment theorists to define those of us who, through no fault of our…
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Who Might I Have Been If…
We might at times have played a game in relation to money and career: what if I had won the…
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The Miseries of Push-Pull Relationships
Relationships
On Picking a Socially Unsuitable Partner
Self-Knowledge
How the Unfinished Business of Childhood is Played Out in Relationships
Self-Knowledge
The Stages of Development – And What If We Miss Out on One…
Relationships
A Way To Break Logjams In A Couple
Relationships
How to Sustain Love: A Tool
Self-Knowledge
A Guide For The Recovering Avoidant
Self-Knowledge