Emotional Discipline: The 2 Traps to Avoid

Emotional Discipline: The 2 Traps to Avoid

What is emotional discipline? What’s the healthiest way to handle your feelings? Emotional discipline doesn’t mean that you ignore your feelings. It means that you address your feelings in a measured way. You can avoid the traps of too little structure or too much structure—striking a healthy emotional balance—so that you can put more energy toward growth. Read more to learn about healthy emotional discipline.

Effortless Love Is a Myth: Love Takes Work

Effortless Love Is a Myth: Love Takes Work

Do you believe in effortless love? Or do you think that love takes work? According to psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, effortless love is a myth. Genuine love takes work, and work requires attention. He argues that listening with full attention is a critical act of genuine love for parenting and other types of relationships. He also discusses when love isn’t worth the effort. Keep reading to better understand how and why love takes work.

How to Distinguish Dependency Disorder From Love

How to Distinguish Dependency Disorder From Love

What is dependency disorder? Why is it sometimes confused with love? A common myth about love is that it is the same as dependency. However, dependency is a disorder in which the need for nurture takes over your life. Dependency disorder is parasitic, not leaving room for freedom. True love is interdependence, a healthy dynamic that thrives on freedom. Keep reading to learn more about dependency disorder and how it is different from love.

How to Rekindle Passion in a Long-Term Relationship

How to Rekindle Passion in a Long-Term Relationship

Do you feel like your committed sex life is becoming monotone, routine, or worse—non-existent? Do you want to bring back the excitement and rekindle the passion but aren’t sure how to go about it? In her book Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel argues that the key to rekindling the passion in a committed, long-term relationship is, paradoxically enough, introducing distance. The reason your passion diminished is that the boundaries between you and your partner had shrunk, yet distance, separateness, and mystery are the key ingredients of sexual desire. In this article, we’ll discuss how to rekindle the passion in a

Mating in Captivity: Quotes by Esther Perel

Mating in Captivity: Quotes by Esther Perel

Are you looking for Mating in Captivity quotes by Esther Perel? What are some of the most noteworthy passages worth revisiting? Making in Captivity by couples therapist Esther Perel offers a new, bold take on sex and intimacy in committed relationships. She reinforces that, although desire and love may have some fundamental contradictions, there are ways to balance the clashes, and ways to manage extra-relationship stresses. The following Mating in Captivity quotes highlight some of the key ideas.

Sex After Children: Rekindling Sexual Intimacy

Sex After Children: Rekindling Sexual Intimacy

Does having a baby kill your sex life? Why do you think that is? More importantly, how can we prevent parenthood from impinging on sexual intimacy? For many couples, once they have a child, almost everything about their lives changes: their relationships with themselves and the people they know, their bodies, roles, and amount of resources (finances, time, energy, and so on). Many of these changes affect the erotic life as well, usually in a suppressive way. In this article, we’ll discuss why parenthood often kills sexual intimacy and ways to rekindle your desire to have sex after children.

Committed Sex: It Doesn’t Have to Be Boring

Committed Sex: It Doesn’t Have to Be Boring

Are commitment and desire mutually exclusive? Do you think it’s possible to maintain sexual desire in a lifelong relationship? Many couples therapists think that it’s normal for desire to fade and that lust is immature or based on fear of commitment. But according to psychotherapist Esther Perel, you can have both commitment and desire in the same relationship, they just may not always take place at the same time. Here is what Esther Perel has to say about committed sex.