Relationships are hard! Why not just surrender to the idea that we (adults) struggle in our relationships? Pride? Ego? Fear? We tell stories about crazy women (and men), about our psycho exe’s. We write them off as emotional wrecks … narcissists … selfish. We label them. We shame them. We judge them when we are not equipped…
I broke someone’s heart twenty-nine years ago. I did not do this gracefully or gently. I had fallen in love with someone else and the transition was hasty and unskillful. I didn’t talk to this person for almost twenty years, though I thought about the person often. And then I had my heart broken. I thought…
Now more than ever, I’m noticing poor, heartless, mean conversations. I think the ubiquity of social media, texting and digital communication as well as the politically hostile times has made us all impatient, distracted, rude and uncaring conversationalists. I responded to something my friend posted the other day, and one of his relatives clapped back or…
What if only 4 hours of your time stood between you and a more loving, connected relationship? What if in 4 hours, you could understand what’s really at the bottom of the problems you’re having with your partner? And what if, in those same 4 hours, you learned how to dissolve those issues in ways…
For a relationship to heal from betrayal, there is a need for deep vulnerability truth-telling from both people. If a relationship has been devastated by an affair or multiple affairs, healing will take a lot of reflection on what went wrong, and what is needed to make it better, but if both people believe the relationship…
There is no getting around this fact—there will be times when we will feel very skeptical, cynical or bleak about our marriage. We will also wonder why we got married. We will feel as though we made a disastrous mistake in tying our life to this person. Those moments won’t necessarily last, but they are…
Trauma is an emotional response following any distressing event like abuse, violence or a natural disaster. Sufferers develop emotional issues like PTSD, anxiety, depression, guilt, sadness and anger. There has been a lot of research on developing healthy ways to cope with trauma. Imago Therapy heals trauma, depression, anxiety, PTSD & many psychological problems by…
I think the comment section online should be a beautiful public, objective platform of our collective community; a place where we navigate an intelligent, insightful, humorous, informative and thoughtful exchange of ideas. The online comment section should be a place where we learn to understand each other’s points of view and where serious conversations evolve…
Once an affair has been uncovered, we often ask – from the pained position of the person betrayed – when it began? We fantasize that pinpointing the precise moment promises to shed light on the motivations and on possible ways to prevent any further disasters from happening in the future. There is understandably a hunt…