In a relationship support and control often have opposite meaning.  Control indicates that one person to some extent is in charge, perhaps the author…

Many therapists are increasingly hearing their male clients, or couples, highlight internet porn as a problem for them.  This is not surprising give…

After a period of time together, it is very common for relationships to begin to become predictable or dull.  Communication can lapse, we can forget…

Achieving good relationships is difficult. Why shouldn't it be? Most everything else worthwhile achieving in life is.Remember when you started out le…

In most relationships the sexual drive or libido is different in the partners. Of course, often when we start a relationship it feels like it will la…

Lovers strolling hand in hand along a sandy beach; smiley children playing in turquoise swimming pools; intimate, candlelit dinners for two … Picture…

Betrayal is a word of hyper significance and as such offers pain and suffering to all on the receiving end of it - that includes most if not all of u…

“The opposite of loneliness, it's not togetherness. It is intimacy.” Richard Bach “I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the g…

The novelist E M Forster once said: ‘How do I know what I think, until I hear what I say?’ Talking is hugely underestimated; when we really start loo…

The Office for National Statistics [ONS} revealed at the start of the year that there was a 5% increase in the divorce rate. If we translate this int…

Falling in Love is one of life’s great mysteries. We all carry an image in our souls: that of the God or Goddess of Love. One day, we meet a person w…

There are Dramas played out in nearly every family or relationship. Some are loud and dramatic, some are silent. When I speak of Drama I mean a speci…