The Wrenching Heartbreak of Being Left for Another

The Wrenching Heartbreak of Being Left for Another

Being dumped for someone else is a double punch: not only do you feel abandoned but also replaced. It’s a biological imperative to guard your mate – and now he or she is with someone else and you’re stuck with the harrowing, awful, alone feeling of knowing that the...
8 Reasons It May Be Hard to Sustain a Relationship

8 Reasons It May Be Hard to Sustain a Relationship

Summer feels like a time for growth, for change – a time to reconnect with yourself, start new projects, and maybe even get serious about making a relationship happen. There are countless reasons why, despite your readiness, a relationship may elude you. In my...
5 Reasons People Choose to Remain Single

5 Reasons People Choose to Remain Single

Here and elsewhere you can find hundreds of articles offering advice for starting relationships, thriving in relationships, ending relationships, and recovering after a relationship ends. Largely absent from these conversations are those who avoid relationships or are...
Painfully Stuck in a Relationship? Here’s How To Get Out

Painfully Stuck in a Relationship? Here’s How To Get Out

Do you feel oppressed, depressed and shut down in your relationship? Does the fear you have about what the future would hold if you leave make you stay despite your unhappiness? The answers are complex and multileveled, but the key to moving forward when feeling stuck...
Can You be in a Relationship but Still be Yourself?

Can You be in a Relationship but Still be Yourself?

Where do you end and where does your partner begin? Early in a relationship, you may not know or even care. Initially, both you and your partner present your best selves to each other. You want to share everything, do everything together and form commonalities, which...