Dating tips on having better relationships.

What Emotional Abuse Feels Like When It Starts

It’s not always easy to tell at the beginning of a relationship if it will become emotionally abusive. Naturally, you want to know what emotional abuse feels like so you can spot it right away. At first, your partner may seem perfect. Maybe even too perfect. An emotionally abusive person can come off incredibly charming at first. The charm is what they show to the world. Friends and family might fall for it, too. The emotionally [...]

2019-02-04T18:03:34-07:00February 4th, 2019|Relationships|Comments Off on What Emotional Abuse Feels Like When It Starts

How Codependency Ruins Relationships Before You Even Know

If you’ve ever been called a codependent before, learning how codependency ruins relationships is a very important issue to look into. It’s not that codependents can’t create successful, happy partnerships, but that some of the core requirements for mutual and sustaining love are not as easy to create. Below you’ll find the core issues most codependents face along with how to address them so you have a better shot at creating and sustaining a happy relationship [...]

2019-01-25T19:24:05-07:00January 25th, 2019|Relationships|Comments Off on How Codependency Ruins Relationships Before You Even Know

How To Cope With Unhappy Relationships and Depression

Relationships and depression do not always go together, but when they do it can be difficult to cope. The first step is admitting to yourself and then to each other that you are unhappy. This can involve the loss of a dream or an idea of what you thought you had. In order to see if things can get better, you have to admit there is a problem and talk about what went wrong. Rationalizing that [...]

2019-01-07T14:15:11-07:00January 7th, 2019|Relationships|Comments Off on How To Cope With Unhappy Relationships and Depression

What To Do If Dating Is Too Stressful For You

Dating is often stressful, but in general, having fun with it is key.  If you are really stressed out, that can be a warning sign that you are not dating the right person.  It may also mean that you need to explore some things about yourself that will get down to the root cause of why dating is so stressful. Here are some guidelines that are especially helpful if it feels like dating is too stressful [...]

2018-10-04T12:18:49-07:00October 4th, 2018|Relationships|Comments Off on What To Do If Dating Is Too Stressful For You

Nagging Could be Key to A Healthy Relationship & Life: Six tips for nagging with love.

Nobody likes to be nagged, but there could be benefits to it, found a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The study showed that cancer patients who are nagged by a partner may fare better. In fact, research revealed that married people are 53 percent more likely to get the recommended or appropriate treatment for their cancer. Spouses often push patients to be treated aggressively rather than take a “watch-and-wait” approach. With this [...]

2014-04-03T00:27:04-07:00March 26th, 2014|Relationships|Comments Off on Nagging Could be Key to A Healthy Relationship & Life: Six tips for nagging with love.

Five Relationship Patterns That Rule Your Dating Life

What are the pervasive relationship patterns that we repeat over and over? It’s important to know that often the relationship patterns we are entrenched in are largely unconscious to us.  Suddenly, we find ourselves entangled in something and not sure how we got there, or how we didn’t recognize it sooner.  We are unaware that these patterns exist, so we can’t extricate ourselves from them.  We have been observing other people in our lives doing them [...]

2014-04-21T01:31:44-07:00March 26th, 2014|Relationships|Comments Off on Five Relationship Patterns That Rule Your Dating Life

How Cannabis Use Damages Your Brain

Marijuana has a serious effect on marriage and relationships.  In order to have a close, connected relationship, your spouse will most likely want you to be tuned in to their feelings, and to be able to discuss important matters affecting your life together.  Having a family pulls adults in several directions at once, so you need to focus and be able to juggle the many demands of life.  Since using marijuana daily negatively affects attention, learning, [...]

2014-04-03T00:26:46-07:00March 26th, 2014|Relationships|Comments Off on How Cannabis Use Damages Your Brain

Dating & Career: Not As Different as You Might Think

Think of what you did to get where you are in your career.  You spent years perfecting the basics of learning during your primary education.  Then you went to college, which today not only eats up 4-10 years in the prime of your physical life, but can cost upwards of five hundred thousand dollars!  Then, you got your first position and started from the ground up learning the actual work that you trained and spent your [...]

2014-04-03T00:26:14-07:00March 26th, 2014|Relationships|Comments Off on Dating & Career: Not As Different as You Might Think

Finances, Marriage and Neurofeedback

Making Good Financial Decisions: Neurofeedback Therapy Can Help Believe it or not, neurofeedback therapy has positive by-products to specific treatments.  Neurofeedback is great for treating anxiety issues.  When anxiety or stress is reduced, one of the most prevalent effects is better critical thinking when it really counts.  In no situation is this more important than in our financial health. According to a New York Times article entitled, “Money Fights Predict Divorce Rates,” Professor Jeffrey Dew tracked [...]

2014-04-03T00:36:55-07:00March 26th, 2014|Neurofeedback / EMDR / Somatic Experiencing, Relationships|Comments Off on Finances, Marriage and Neurofeedback
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