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If you’ve ever (perhaps jealously) observed happy couples and thought they had a perfect healthy relationship, you may have been surprised the first time you saw them disagree or learned, in ...
Relationships provide social support that allows us to engage fewer resources to regulate our emotions, especially when we must cope with stressful situations. Social relationships have short-term and long-term effects on health, both mental and physical. In a lifespan perspective, recent research suggests that early life experiences still have ...
You list a couple of reasons why and then say, “And I’d really like us to work on that.” Making space for these conversations could mean the difference between healthy vs unhealthy ...
(Here’s the difference between healthy vs. unhealthy relationships.) In a broken relationship, “you don’t get along more than you do get along, ...
Under this conception of codependency, the codependent person's sense of purpose within a relationship is based on making extreme sacrifices to satisfy their partner's needs. Codependent relationships signify a degree of unhealthy "clinginess" and needy behavior, where one person does not have self-sufficiency or autonomy. One or both parties ...
Personal boundaries or the act of setting boundaries is a life skill that has been popularized by self help authors and support groups since the mid-1980s. Personal boundaries are established by changing one's own response to interpersonal situations, rather than expecting other people to change their behaviors to comply with your boundary. [1]
Depression can be challenging on relationships for a number of reasons, says Susan J. Noonan, MD, a Boston-based physician and author of Helping Others With Depression: Words to Say, Things to Do.
Relationship maintenance (or relational maintenance) refers to a variety of behaviors exhibited by relational partners in an effort to maintain that relationship.Scholars define relational maintenance in four different ways: [1] to keep a relationship in existence, to keep a relationship in a specified state or condition, to keep a relationship in a satisfactory condition, and to keep a ...