Our relationships with our parents lay the foundation for our future connections with others, shaping the way we navigate emotional bonds well into adulthood. Attachment expert, author, and therapist ...

While the events that lead to love, marriage, affairs and divorce can often feel arbitrary, for psychologists there is a ...

It could be negatively impacting your relationships. When we form a relationship with a partner, family member or close friend, inevitably, we bring our emotional baggage along too. And there’s ...

Do you find yourself hyperfixating on whether your partner is upset with you? Do you feel as though you're constantly nagging at your significant other in search of affection? Or maybe you're the ...

Insecure attachment styles can lead to the fear of becoming overattached to therapy. This fear often masks the fear of ...

From "love languages" to personality tests, there are myriad ways to try to suss out the types of people who will make harmonious relationships, and those who will create partnerships born for divorce ...

From fear of vulnerability to an overwhelming need for reassurance, our attachment styles often stem from the ways we were cared for as children. Understanding these patterns, where they come from and ...

You hate weddings and loathe Valentine’s Day. You gag at PDA. Every time you start to get close to someone new, you lace up your New Balances and sprint in the opposite direction. If you just won this ...

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Dismissive avoidant attachment often gets a bad rap and, sometimes, that can be justified based on “bad” behavior in relationships. That said, dismissive avoidant people are also widely misunderstood.

Overparenting refers to parents’ excessive, or age-inappropriate, protection of and control over their adolescent or young adult children. Overparenting may also involve parents' excessive involvement ...