Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Relationships should ideally be a source of comfort, love, and mutual respect. Yet, sometimes actions that seem loving may cross a ...

Many patients have come to me hopelessly engulfed in a relationship that is draining their life force and diminishing their sense of self. They are involved with intensely controlling partners who ...

Relationships should make you feel safe, loved, and free to be yourself. But sometimes, what looks like care and attention can actually be control in disguise. A partner who seems perfect on the ...

We tend to associate the word “abuse” with more extreme behaviors and actions. However, abuse occurs on a continuum and can take on different forms and morph and/or escalate over the course of the ...

While we can all say different things about love, the one thing most people can agree on is that it should feel safe. You should never be worried about saying the wrong thing to your partner or having ...

In relationship development, trust serves as a foundation that couples work to establish over time. When a partner begins blocking opposite-gender contacts without discussion, this behavior often ...