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How would you describe your relationship to yourself? When you ask yourself this question (one I often ask of clients), it’s easy to quickly respond with a sweeping declaration of self-love, indifference or self-hatred. But such statements don’t really capture the complexity of our relationship with ourselves. And then there
Distressed couples are couples that, in some way, have fallen away from each other. The emotional connection that infused life and vitality into their relationship has weakened and in some cases, severed completely. Attachment theory/research shows that emotional connection — that subjective sense that our spouse/partner is emotionally “there” for
Emotions are contagious (1). It’s like your feelings create an orbit with a gravitational pull and once your spouse/partner is pulled into your emotional orbit, s/he will begin to feel what you are feeling (to some degree). You might already be aware of this happening: When you offer comfort to
