The couple bubble is a pact between partners in which the quid-pro-quo is to burden one another with the tasks of devotion and caring for the other’s safety, security, and well-being. This mutual burden determines the degree of shared gratitude and valuation you both can experience. If you think about it, when the going […]
“There’s a widely held belief that to be loved you have to abandon power, and vice versa,” says Adam Kahane, author of Power and Love. “Then you choose a partner who provides the missing function.” In fact, when expressed separately, love and power degenerate, he argues. Lack of love turns power into unconstrained self-interest; lack […]
While we as a society give “lip service” to monogamy, we contribute to some significant societal factors that actually support and encourage affairs. This is not to say that all the blame should be placed on society. That would be just as shortsighted as blaming only the particular people involved. But if we’re to understand and more effectively deal with this issue, it’s essential that we look at the social context within which affairs take place.
How to Navigate Dating Effectively ~ For Mature Women + Baby Boomers With divorce rates higher than ever before and Baby Boomers hitting their 50s, 60s and up, more and more mature women are finding themselves single and facing the choice whether to go back into the dating pool or not. Social mores and […]
Three pointers on helping someone else change their habits. Having written a book on how to change your own habits, in interviews I was often asked: how can I change another person’s habits? Say I want my partner to stop cracking his knuckles or get my daughter to put down her mobile phone at meal times […]
I WOULD FAP out of boredom, sometimes even at work in the bathrooms. I was addicted, pathetic… Anon22 discovered Internet porn when he was just 12 years old. Looking back, he recalls it clearly. “I was unable to look away. I remember everything about that first moment. The music that was playing, where my parents were […]
“Most infidelity occurs in relationships at the time of pregnancy and the birth of the first child.”
Savannah Ellis & Joe Whitcomb Talk about their passion for helping couples and individuals heal from hurting relationship on L.A’s Mother Love Show Listen to Savannah & Joe on the Mother Love Show Here WATCH: Joe Whitcomb gives a quick shout out after the show.
Join my special guest and relationship guru Savannah Ellis and me on Baring It All with MVO Radio. Where we’re gonna share some shocking and revealing truths you will absolutely want to hear. Get ready to laugh, cry and hear the brutal honest truth and insights into this and more when it comes to your […]
Nailing difficult conversations The Age, May 18, 2015 Small Business Psychologist Savannah Ellis recommends writing down a plan of action before you start the discussion. Photo: Supplied You can put them off for as long as you like, but there’s no escaping difficult conversations. What scares us most is confrontation: how to bring it up, where […]