Relationship Tips

There comes a time in every relationship when you need to make a significant decision or commitment together. You might be considering increasing your relationship commitment, or making a decision together which requires a big emotional, financial, or psychological commitment. Some significant relationship commitments you might make together include: deciding to move in together getting […]

Are you feeling dragged down by your depressed partner? When one or both people in a relationship are dealing with depression, it can cause the dynamic to shift significantly, and not in a good way. Depression is a challenge to a relationship—like any illness— but it doesn’t mean the relationship is to blame and it

How much touch do you have in your relationship? An interesting study from the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Haifa found that when you hold hands with a loved one in pain, your breathing and heart rate synchronise with theirs and your brain wave patterns will couple. This study was recently published

New research says couples do poorly at knowing when their partner is sad or feeling down Reading your partner’s feelings and good communication is important to the health of your relationship—this should come as no surprise. A recent study found that couples can read each other’s feelings well when the emotion occurring is happiness, but

It’s time to put down your smartphone and connect Although smartphones can make you feel connected to the world at large, they interfere with real human exchanges. A new study from the University of British Columbia looked at the effect of smartphones on face-to-face social interactions and found that people who used their phones while

by Counselling Associate Brandon Srot I was trained to avoid the why question. Cautioned against the implications of clients feeling that they need to defend themselves – namely defensiveness, anger and agitation – I stayed clear from this w-word in my novice years as a therapist. And yet in practice, now several years later, what

If you’re meeting people through online dating, follow these safety tips Like shopping, online dating is more popular now than ever before. (Could you call it a kind of online shopping? Maybe). 1 out of 5 single people has dated someone they met online. We don’t have statistics for how many Australians are doing online