Has your sex life dried up since you’ve had children? You never thought it would never happen to the two of you, but it did. As a new parent, sex has become less and less of a priority and eventually, before you knew it, it’s become a somewhat of a chore for you and possibly your […]
Sex After Having a Baby: What to do When Intimacy Fades Read Post »
Could your relationship benefit from a couples retreat? When you hear “couples retreat”, you might think of the 2009 film with Vince Vaughn. A couple, juggling their busy lives while raising two children, decide to take on a vacation getaway package combined with couples counselling, to realise what a great thing they have going. The
Couples Retreat: The Value of Focusing on Your Relationship Read Post »
Dating is more complex today than ever before You have a semi-new partner and everything was going so well until they stopped answering your calls. They say one thing and mean another. There are looming shadows of ex-significant others who are creeping back into your partner’s life. Or were they ever not present? You find
Dating Games: How to Know You’re Being Played Read Post »
The older you get, the more “baggage” there is. This is an inevitable fact of life- you gain more experiences and you’re not the only one who’s going to have a history when it comes to starting a new relationship. So what if you started dating someone with a kid, or maybe more than one
Dating with Kids: Don’t Do These 4 Things Read Post »
I recently had the honour of writing for Her Business blog on the topic of workplace relationships. Her Business is the leading online resource for women business owners and entrepreneurs in Australia. Their blog has won numerous awards, including the winner of the 2013 Best Australian Blogs Competition in the business category and named in
Workplace Relationships: Effective Communication Styles in the Workplace Read Post »
The science behind love reveals a complex and important phenomena “Love is a many splendored-thing”. When Mark Zuckerberg launched the original Facebook, it was not complete until a person’s relationship status was incorporated into user profiles. We strive for love because we derive happiness from it. Pretty much every song on the radio is a love
What is Love? The Science Behind the World’s Greatest Feeling Read Post »
Do some famous couples know something about relationships we don’t? Famous couples have it going on. They’re beautiful, they’re powerful, and they’re important. We know about their dramas as if we are living their lives: the pangs, the mess, the cheating, and the almost-divorces. We are constantly “in like” with these tabloid fixtures because we’re
Famous Couples: What Are Their Secrets to Relationship Longevity? Read Post »
Tinder is a fast-growing, new location-based discovery app that is used for dating. Have you heard of the Tinder App for dating yet? Unlike other online dating platforms like eHarmony, Match.com or OkCupid, there is a particularly simpler aspect to Tinder, without any greater claims of compatibility or profile algorithms. Tinder users are simply shown
Tinder App for Dating: Harmless or Harmful? Read Post »
The split of Academy Award Winner Gwyneth Paltrow from Cold Play frontman Chris Martin recently has made news headlines. But not just because they are ending more than 10 years of marriage, but because of the way it was announced. Gwyneth announced the split on her blog Goop, under the headline ‘conscious uncoupling’. The online
Conscious Uncoupling: Is This Just a Prettier Way of Saying “We’re Getting a Divorce”? Read Post »
Dr Sue Johnson is a leader in the field of relationships and couple therapy and is the primary founder of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, which is used as an approach to working with couples throughout the world. She calls herself an attachment theorist and researcher and she helps people learn how to have relationships that
