Satisfying Love Relationships: How to Build a Secure Attachment

Attachment theory is a psychological model that describes how people develop emotional attachments to others. For example, when you feel protected, seen, and supported by your partner, you have a secure attachment. How we connect with our partners is part of what helps us feel satisfied in our marriages and love relationships. What is secure […]

Walking on Eggshells? The Disorganized Attachment Style

What is a disorganized attachment style? How does it start? What can you and your partner or spouse do in your marriage or love relationship to heal and create a more satisfying relationship so that neither of you feel that you have to “walk on eggshells” around each other? First, we need to be compassionate […]

Entangled in Your Marriage? All About Anxious Preoccupied Attachment

Have you ever worried that your partner or spouse doesn’t love you enough, or that you can’t get close to them? In your marriage or love relationship, do you feel jealousy and fear of being abandoned? These are just a few signs of an anxious-preoccupied attachment style, a type of relationship connection pattern that can […]

Loving at Arm’s Length? Unpacking an Avoidant Attachment Style

Are you married or in a serious relationship with someone who seems emotionally distant and tries to push you away? Or, do you ever feel like you don’t want to get too close to your partner or spouse, even though you love and care about them? If so, you may have had or been in a relationship with someone […]

How to Parent When You Both Work Full-Time

Many male-female couples start out intending to share parenting duties 50/50. However, they can quickly fall into old societal gender roles once the baby arrives, where the woman takes on much more than the man despite both spouses having full-time careers. What can couples do to ensure parenting and household duties don’t end up destroying their intimacy, and even their marriage?