Does your otherwise sane and loving partner have a tendency to verbally lash out at you when they feel anxious and insecure? Here’s what it means – and what to do about it.
Emotional Intimacy
Nine Steps to a Successful Difficult Conversation With Your Partner
One of the hardest things to do in a relationship is to have a “difficult conversation” where you address a highly contentious issue between the two of you. Here’s some instructions and a road map for getting through them successfully without running off the road.
Why Having Difficult Conversations with Your Partner is So Hard
Unfortunately, there’s no way to make it easy to have a difficult conversation. But if you understand what makes them so difficult, you’re much more likely to have them go well.
How to Have a Difficult Conversation with Your Partner
There comes a point in every intimate relationship where expressing some difficult truths in conversation is the only way to stay emotionally close and connected. Here are some pointers to help you get started.
The Male Code: Why Men Have Difficulty With Emotional Intimacy
Want to know why so many men have trouble with their emotions? Just look at the “code” embedded in their “programming” that tells them that feeling most of their feelings is either weak – or dangerous.
How to Rekindle Emotional Intimacy and Connection With Your Partner—and Yourself
Have you and your partner gone from staring into each other’s eyes to staring at your iPhones? Here is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to getting your emotional intimacy back.
There are 4 Types of Intimacy, and Only 1 Includes Touching
Can you feel completely and totally intimate, and still fully clothed?
Resenting Your Spouse
Most people will at times feel angry or resentful toward their spouse. But chronic anger and resentment feels bad and can deeply harm your marriage. Simply telling yourself not to feel that way, however, rarely works. Here are some suggestions.
About Larry Letich, LCSW-C & Dr. Helene Brenner
We’re Helene Brenner and Larry Letich. Helene is a licensed psychologist in private practice for more than 30 years. Larry is an individual and couples therapist. Besides being therapists, we’re co-authors and partners in life and love for more than four decades.