Sublime

louder and louder

and sharing their own needs and fears. It

love relationships,

we more easily roll with the hurts

They did not have to hide or deny them.

who were experiencing a serious downswing in their relationship,

To strive to overcome the limbic-brain-induced impulses to burn the house down, smash all the china, or give his expensive suits away to Goodwill—choosing

defensively nonintimate

Low mood increases any self-criticism or self-attack that we already do.