Some people in the dating world are content to have simultaneous or sequential short-term relationships. They’re not ready to commit and aren’t concerned about when and how that might happen. The dating world is a smorgasbord of new experiences and they’re not ready to leave those adventures behind…
Having been party to hundreds of partner conflicts in my forty-three years of working with intimate couples, I can categorically state that score-keeping is a futile process. Unless there is an absolute misdistribution and consistent misdistribution of power in a relationship, the partners within it will absolutely, over time, ultimately even the score….
There are a few fascinating observations about many relationship seekers that are so common that they sometime feel like the norm. One of them is when a person is more intrigued by something out of reach than something he or she has, or might be able to attain. That grass-could-be-greener-if-we-could-only-get-to-it-desire can occupy one’s total imagination, wiping out any true contentment in what is at hand….
Relationship partners most often obsess over an intimate partner when a relationship is new and at any time when they feel there is a threat to an existing relationship. When it is continuous and intense, obsession can be an enslaving, self-absorption that can fill people’s minds and hearts, immobilizing their ability to endure what feels like certain loss…
Focusing on your integrity rather than your self-esteem will greatly improve your overall confidence in relationships as well as help you build much stronger bonds. Integrity comes from having a firm sense of who you are, what you believe, and what you stand for regardless of any familial or societal expectations which may have been placed upon you…