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Developmental Affirmations
As you recall, one of the most important roles we play in our partners’ lives is providing a secure base: creating the conditions that enable our partners to pursue their interests and explore the world in confidence.
Amir Levine • Attached: Are you Anxious, Avoidant or Secure? How the science of adult attachment can help you find – and keep – love
What is left is two unhealthy communicators who struggle to state what they want or need, who expect their partner to understand instinctively how to help them, and who create secretive negotiations based on works and perceived debts.
Adam Smith • Slaying Your Fear: A guide for people who grapple with insecurity
One or both partners don’t know how to explicitly ask the other for what they want When directed to state clearly what they want from their partner, one or both partners experience a surge of anxiety which stops them One or both partners also suffer from low self-esteem but can’t say why Many times, the partners who struggle in the above areas expe
... See moreAdam Smith • Exhausted Wives, Bewildered Husbands: Why your marriage is hurting, and how to blossom as a couple
mutual and consensual.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Your habitual ways of interacting with the important people in your life tell us a great deal about the defense mechanisms you typically use.
Joseph Burgo PhD • Why Do I Do That?: Psychological Defense Mechanisms and the Hidden Ways They Shape Our Lives
