a few years agoi was referred to a highly reputable and respected psychologist who, in the midst of writing academic books and journals, also crossed the border on occasion to speakat very prestigious universities. if this is the case with you please don’t give up, there are ways to work through it so you can build up that trust again because i honestly believe that therapy is so important to your health and well being. i was left feeling so …

do you find it hard or even impossible to trust others? abandonment issues mean that deep down, you lack confidence that others can love and accept you. a hidden part of you believes you aren’t really good enough to be loved anyway. that it’s dangerous to let someone see the real you when all they will do is leave you and hurt you. not even a bad breakup would be the cause. perhaps your main caregiver was unreliable, or gave …

i believed couples therapy would pretty much guarantee that the two of us would work out all of our issues as a couple. because ours wasn’t a last-ditch effort to mend the relationship, i thought that it would just make what was good better. when i wanted to sit down and discuss the hard things, he didn’t. so i became interested in the things he was doing in his spare time: long-distance running, crossfit, learning how to adopt a paleo …

“if you aren’t interested, then you aren’t interested, and it’s honestly unfair to yourself and the guy to pretend that you are just because you feel pressured by other people to ‘give them a chance.'” so many teens think a ‘normal’ relationship is supposed to make you feel anxious and confused. people start thinking, ‘is this person really rejecting me or are they just playing hard to get?’ just be honest and clear from the beginning! it should just happen …

while some, like playing a quick game on your phone, serve to let your anger dissipate, others, like screaming into a pillow, sometimes only compound the emotion. “it is important to note that the emotion of anger is normal and common,” says jim seibold, a marriage and family therapist based in arlington, texas. “issues involving anger arise from our response to it, not from the experience of it. if we are taking the time to write down our thoughts, we …