While marital conflict is unavoidable, emotional flooding, toxic fighting, and escalation are entirely preventable.

Here are 2 powerful ideas for what to do instead of fighting with your partner…

Some of the most useful stuff in science-based couples therapy helps us to be kinder and more regulated…

It is when we really are so pissed, that we don’t give a sh*t, that we are the most epically unkind…

Here’s how to do better…

Some humans are unlucky.

They never experienced a family of origin that confirmed their self-worth… Unfortunately, they refrain from complaining when they should…

There is a lot of talk these days about Relational Ambivalence. How does Perel’s idea of Relational Ambivalence relate to our ongoing epidemic of family estrangement?