Sublime

Again, we must constantly remind ourselves: In a true partnership, both partners view it as their responsibility to ensure the other’s emotional well-being.

Be a “researcher” in relationships.

Fractures develop when couples lose sight of their similarities.

Get Emotional

As you can see, working with early attachment issues is very delicate business, and clearly not every therapist or form of therapy is suited to it.

In addition, powerful currents of identification inevitably come into play in the intimate realms of a long-term relationship. Partners not only sense each other’s feelings, they identify and empathically resonate with them. It may not be consciously apparent to either one that this is what’s happening. People sense, often unconsciously, the vulner

Adult attachment designates three main “attachment styles,” or manners in which people perceive and respond to intimacy in romantic relationships, which parallel those found in children:

Of the many emerging descriptions of our social brain, for me the simplest and most elegant is the highly regarded Social Baseline Theory of Lane Beckes and James A. Coan, two researchers at the University of Virginia.

E Is for Emotional Reactivity