Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples: Third Edition
When safe connection seems lost, partners go into fight-or-flight mode. They blame and get aggressive to get a response, any response, or they close down and try not to care. Both are terrified; they are just dealing with it differently. Trouble is, once they start this blame-distance loop, it confirms all their fears and adds to their sense of iso
... See moreDr. Sue Johnson • Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
This revelation “moved” their blaming partners into responding more tenderly, and sharing their own needs and fears.
Dr. Sue Johnson • Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
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Adam Smith • Exhausted Wives, Bewildered Husbands: Why your marriage is hurting, and how to blossom as a couple
Love in adulthood is a re-experiencing of the love our every cell remembers. The way we were loved in early life is the way we want to be loved all our lives. Most of us know just what it takes for us to feel loved. What we have to learn is how to ask for it. A partner is not a mind-reader, so it is up to each of us to tell our partner what our bra
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