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Why Do We Keep Having the Same Fight? Understanding Relationship Conflict Cycles
Sometimes couples aren’t really arguing about dishes, schedules, or text messages. They’re caught in a familiar emotional pattern that keeps repeating. Understanding the cycle can help partners respond differently and reconnect.
Steps to increasing assertiveness for shy people… or anyone really
it is possible to be introverted and assertive. It is possible to come from a family culture or heritage where self-advocacy was not an option and now acquire the skills to thrive in this emerging new environment while remaining true to your culture and self.
Marriages Like Fine Wines Take Time
Relationships are like fine wines; the taste and consistency will not happen overnight. However, the steadiness, texture, and palatable is borne out of care, understanding, patience, and desire. In my couples, therapy work…I find the “crystal ball” effect being quite prevalent, in fact, it’s so prevalent that when mentioned individuals appear bewildered.