Empathy is a skill, and can be used to validate the importance of your partner’s reality: thoughts, feelings or experience. When you use empathy in the right moments, your partner can feel your care and compassion for them in your relationship. Being empathic means you are actively showing your partner that their inner life: feelings,…
Curiosity is a skill and can be used to connect to another person’s reality, and to get to know them better, but it is an essential skill needed to connect in a loving relationship. When curiosity-based questions are used without agenda or judgment, with an accept-ing sincere tone they can help you to get to…
Renowned author Gary Chapman has been counseling married couples for 30 years and more. Also, all his radio programs have been airing on more than 100 stations. In his book The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate, he rightfully defines the ways to keep a marriage relationship well and alive….
Celebrated author Patricia Love has magnificently explained how most of us are familiar with the consequences of a relationship turning sour. She defines how many women are eager to hold up a conversation, while many men choose to walk away, lacking in communication skills. In her 2007 publication Why Women Talk and Men Walk: How…
← Read or Listen to our Loves Hidden Policy Articles The International Authority for Professional Coaching & Mentoring (IAPC&M) and Why I ONLY Support this Coaching Accreditation Body, Tony Vernon, HWC, NMC, AMC, MMC Coaching, counseling or therapy are complex processes that are provided as services offered by human-beings with their own personalities, strengths, weaknesses,…
Renowned author Nathaniel Branden has exquisitely articulated the various aspects of love in this book. He gracefully defines love and why it is born, grows, and sometimes dies. We recommend this book to all couples wanting to deepen their knowledge of love. As human beings, many of us wonder how romantic love evolves. There is…
Intersubjectivity has become a topic of considerable interest among psychoanalysts, psychologists, therapists and advanced professional coaches. In its most basic sense the term intersubjectivity refers to the interaction between two subjects: self and other. It is mostly used in a therapist-client or coach-client context but is particularly useful to look at when working with couples in a…
Attachment theory explains how we behave and react in relationships. Our attachment style is set up in our early interactions with our parents or primary caregivers as a child. An attachment style has a huge impact on how we interact with others as adults. Your attachment style developed in your early childhood interactions dramatically affects…
Our attachment to our parents in our initial infancy years of life is a vitally important period that, to a degree, shapes you for the rest of your life. There is now a huge amount of evidence to support the validity of attachment theory and how our early years affect our ability to form close…
An attachment style dictates mostly how an individual relates to other people and is developed during the initial stages of our life as a child. They are established during infancy from interactions with our parents or primary caregivers. However, the style of attachment we develop as a child will stay with us all throughout our…
