Co-authored by Azin Dastpak and Robert T. Muller, Ph.D. You may know someone with any or all of the following behaviours: meticulously organizes things in their environment, repeatedly checks to see ...
Limerence is an intense, consuming, and exhausting experience that often involves obsessive and intrusive thinking about a person or object that is often referred to in psychoanalytical or therapeutic ...
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No matter how well you and your partner complement each other, you'll inevitably have to navigate your unique differences. Perhaps you need constant affirmation from your partner in order to feel ...
Mixed signals, inconsistent behavior, conflict that goes in circles: These struggles can plague couples who want nothing more than a healthy relationship. In the past few years, a growing awareness of ...
You know the feeling you get when your crush finally texts you back after days of going dark? The butterflies in your stomach, that roller-coaster-of-emotions-gripping anxiety can make you, well, a ...
Do you identify as anxious, avoidant, disorganized or secure? For those who aren’t up on pop psychology vernacular, these terms refer to the four attachment styles. Attachment styles describe how ...
Learning about attachment styles is arguably one of the best ways to understand why you act the way you do in romantic ...
Sometimes we 'love' too much and it hurts too much to let go; rejection from our significant other feels like the end of the world as if our whole life has come to a standstill, a dead end as if we've ...
The rise of therapy-speak has paved the way for attachment styles to become a mainstay in daily conversation, which isn’t a bad thing. Your attachment style is like your personal emotional ...
How you interact with people as an adult can depend on the important relationships you had when you were young. If you didn’t get the support, care, love, and comfort you needed during childhood, you ...