Breaking up and heart break… Why Did They Leave Us? 13 Jan 2020 They’ve gone – and what we need most of all to understand is why? What is striking is that, despite what friends and well-meaning acquaintances tell us, we already know.…
Compatibility… The Real Reason Why Couples Break Up 12 Jan 202012 Jan 2020 When people try to account for why couples break up, the emphasis typically falls on the idea of difference: a disorganised creative type was up against a highly managerial ordered…
Conflicts… The Art of Complaining 12 Jan 202012 Jan 2020 Complaining carries such negative connotations, it can be hard to remember that there are better and worse ways of doing it – and indeed, hard to realise that an essential…
Breaking up and heart break… How to Reject Someone Kindly? 12 Jan 202012 Jan 2020 It is never easy to be rejected but it’s arguably a great deal worse to have to reject; the pains of unrequited love are as nothing next to the agonies…
Breaking up and heart break… What About the Children When Divorce is on the Cards? 11 Jan 202011 Jan 2020 For most of human history, people didn’t stay in relationships for love. They stayed in them in order to protect their assets, ensure their status, pool their resources, synchronise farming…
Conflicts… How To Have Fewer Bitter Arguments in Love? 11 Jan 202011 Jan 2020 There are couples that seem never to argue. Their relationships are marked by enormous outward politeness; they say thank you a lot; they make each other cups of tea; they…
Conflicts… How to Argue in Relationships? 10 Jan 2020 Arguments in relationships are typically so regrettable and often so bitter, it’s natural to hope we might – with greater maturity – overcome them once and for all. But given…
Breaking up and heart break… 10 Ideas for People Afraid to Exit a Relationship 8 Jan 2020 1. You are, to a far greater extent than you perhaps realise, already alone. The condition you fear will happen has already happened. To be formally alone would merely mean…
Compatibility… Konrad Lorenz & Why You Choose the Partners You Choose? 8 Jan 2020 This is a piece about geese, jackdaws, a man called Konrad Lorenz – and your love life. Konrad Lorenz, who was born in 1903 and died in 1989, was an…