Guidelines for Joining In contemporary digital interactions, explicit guidelines often accompany our participation in listservs and...

Social connection has healing effects In 2023, the surgeon general declared loneliness and isolation an epidemic in America. Feelings of...

Relationship cycle Early in a relationship we feel all of the chemical flush of serotonin and dopamine that draws us together. When this...

Survival By survival, I mean our default wiring that is always scanning the horizon for cues or signals of danger. It could be as minor...

Love and happiness are biological.

I imagine today’s generation of young people being asked this question by their children in the next generation. This is a historic mome...

How Are You? Good enough! The first memorable time I heard that phrase was when my supervisor responded to my query “How are you?”...

Hall of Famers At Bat: John Gottman’s research tells us that 67%* of the differences between partners are unresolvable and THIS ...

Desperate Times Just when we thought it was safe enough to live again, all of our hope, optimism, and relief were rudely yanked away...

As we looked back on the last year, my husband said, “we have had an amazing year, despite all of the hard things that have happened.”...

Would you like to get a cup of coffee? That moment when he first walked over to me, my heart was pounding. I can still see myself all of...

What I really want in a partner… I keep reading articles about relationship red flags to look for in your partner. There are lists of...