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Relationship Problems

What to Do If We Bicker Too Much

Key Takeaways Bickering can point to deeper issues in the relationship, not just surface-level disagreements. Strengthening emotional safety can reduce conflict and create more space for connection. Feelings of unlovability or lack of emotional availability often fuel...

Deconstructing Bickering in Relationships

Richard Nicastro, PhD examines why couples fight and proposes that bickering isn’t always the way it seems.  Though bickering can clearly be problematic, he proposes the possibility that sometimes it might be fun. Key Takeaways Bickering is often harmless—but...

Ask Lisa : Lack of Emotional Safety in My Relationship

A woman shares her concern about the lack of emotional safety in her relationship and her challenge with getting him to understand what she needs from him. The Question to Lisa “I read your article on emotional safety, and it seems to be lacking in my recent...

Is Your Relationship in Red Alert?

The most dangerous relationship threat isn’t always what is the most visible, like a pattern of high conflict or obvious lack of kindness or disrespect.  Those are clearly problematic signs that...

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Codependency is an Attachment Issue

Codependency is an Attachment Issue

Aude Castagna, MFT explores the reasons people can be compulsive pleasers and caretakers, even in the face of toxic behaviors and to their own detriment.  She offers some guidance around how to...

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Couples: Virus Fear vs. Virus Fatigue

Couples: Virus Fear vs. Virus Fatigue

Summer is here.  The warm weather beckons.  He wants to get together with a big group for a BBQ in someone’s yard and not worry about wearing masks or if the party spills inside.  She feels strongly...

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