We all experience relationship issues on some level. It can be with your wife, boyfriend, father, friend, a colleague... whoever. It's completely nor…

Perhaps it’s the universal thing that all relationships have – conflict. While there are different styles to resolve the conflicts, the relationships…

When we aren’t getting what we need from our relationships, we can lose track of not only the relationship we thought we had, but who and where we ar…

People are often really surprised to hear that they have been sabotaging their relationships. This is because it is possible to simultaneously yearn…

How many of our relationships are spoiled by anger? How often is that true of our home life and our nearest and dearest. Anger is a powerful, common,…

So, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are front page news. ‘Brangelina’ is no more. They seemed to have so many advantages – successful careers, beauty, w…

Can relationship counselling help us? A question posed by many couples every week. The answer is not a simple one and it relies on many factors for…

Loneliness, isolation and agoraphobia are three very powerful words. I often wonder in this new age how anybody can suffer but sadly it is all too ea…

It is probably true to say that most of us find change difficult and unsettling. Familiar patterns are disrupted and new routines have to be establis…

NB: To understand this article fully, readers should read first ‘On damaging relationship styles’ that I wrote previously. The humanistic psychother…

According to research carried out by Albert Mehrabian for his book Silent Messages, the wholeness of our communication can be classified as follows:…

So many of us long for real intimacy, to be known and to know, yet we also fear what this means; being vulnerable to being hurt and the fear of hurti…