How restoring your own options can make staying feel like a choice again If you have found yourself wondering how to stop being so dependent on your partner after infidelity, the problem may be more complicated than simply becoming “more independent.” Betrayal can expose something that was easy not to think about while the relationship
Reassurance after infidelity can work beautifully for an hour and seem to disappear by the following morning. Your partner answers the question clearly, perhaps shows you something that confirms the answer, and you feel calmer. Then a new trigger arrives - or sometimes merely an old memory - and suddenly you need the reassurance again.
When Couples Cannot Find Their Way Back to Each Other Many couples do not lose love all at once. They lose access to each other. This is often when people begin wondering how to reconnect with your spouse when the marriage has become stuck in one role for too long. They can still manage the house.
The Problem With “Balance” People often say there needs to be balance in relationships. That sounds right, but it may not be the best image. Balance suggests that a relationship should somehow hold everything evenly at once: safety and passion, stability and adventure, emotional depth and practical functioning, eroticism and parenting, independence and togetherness, comfort
Unmasking Covert Narcissism in a Relationship The term “covert narcissist” is often thrown around in heated arguments, usually when tensions in a relationship have reached a breaking point. By the time someone has been labeled as such, it’s not with compassion but as an accusation or insult. It’s understandable, then, that the term ‘covert narcissist’
