Relational Healing Archives

Complacency in Relationships: Signs and How to Avoid It

You’re in a relationship. You’re feeling good about it. You love your partner. Your partner loves you back. You know each other well. You talk, your partner listens. Your partner talks, you listen back. You’re cozy. And it’s easy. And...

Emotional Distance: What It Is & What Causes It?

You weren’t emotionally distant when choosing your partner in the beginning of your relationship. Something must have happened during the course of the relationship that has caused either you or your partner to become emotionless and experience emotional drifting, leading...

Idealization In Relationships: Seeing Through Rose-Tinted Glasses

Idealization is an inevitable part of falling in romantic love. During the initial relationship phases, when passion is at its peak, you are bound to see your partner in an exaggerated, idealized light. Unfortunately, this perfect image always fades, and...

Commitment Issues In Relationships: How To Overcome Them

Many individuals fear commitment and will struggle with situations that require them to establish a long-term connection or obligation to another person. People with commitment issues or commitment phobia experience great levels of anxiety in relationships. The commitment challenges they...

What Is Avoidance / Ambivalence Attachment?

For some individuals, thinking about being in a relationship can activate feelings of wanting to run away. Why? Because they feel that the needs of a partner, family member, or employer are overwhelming. Attachment theory explains the development of attachment...

What Is Attachment Dysregulation? (Formerly Known As Love Addiction)

If you’ve ever felt like the world was coming to an end, depressed or in despair when you’ve let go of a relationship, then you may have experienced withdrawal, or what the Behavioral Health industry has been calling “Love Addiction.”...

The Emotional Effects of Stonewalling

Conflicts in their many forms have been and will be an integral part of human experience. From night-time stories to history books to current events, our existence is littered with major disputes and minor disagreements, petty squabbles and serious differences...

Relational Alignment: What It Is & Why It’s Important

Your emotions, thoughts, and actions are all inextricably linked. These three facets of your life need to work together for you to have a joyful existence. However, for many people, they often function out of tune, especially as a result...

How Does Family Play a Role in Shaping Values?

No child grows up in a vacuum. Whether directly or indirectly, parents and caregivers influence the values and beliefs, and cultural identity of their children. Your parents, for example, may have taught you directly what they believed was right or...

Am I Meant To Be Alone? | Exploring Single Life & Solitude

Not everybody experiences relationships in the same way. While some people find intimacy and romance to be effortless and filled with joy, others struggle to make romantic relationships work. If you've given relationships a try however they haven't worked, you...