How Us Stuck in Relationships That Don’t Work

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth.” ~Charlie Chaplin When I was eight years old my father burst into my room in the middle of the night, high on drugs, and threw my dresser drawers all over the...

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Painful Unhealthy Relationship Patterns

I knew that I had a deep capacity to love, or so I thought, but that somehow wasn’t enough. I always ended up feeling taken for granted or fighting desperately for my partner’s attention after the initial attraction phase wore off. I couldn’t help becoming someone else, someone I thought I needed...

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Love Someone Who Doesn’t Match Your Fantasy

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I’ve always been a dreamer. A really big dreamer. For the most part, it’s served me well. I was the first person in my family to graduate from college. A private college, magna...

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