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Seven Ways to Help Yourself When You Love an Addict

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Loving an addict can feel like you’re on a perpetual rollercoaster of emotions — anger, sadness, hate, love, fear, relief, guilt, disbelief — sometimes experiencing all within mere moments. It’s…

Loved Ones Can Help Battle Addiction

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Fighting addiction is challenging for everybody concerned, not just the individual with chemical dependency. Jim Sullivan has been that individual, and he shares his story in a recent article for…

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Healthy Sex Life Versus Chronic Intimacy Disorder

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An intimacy disorder is difficult to define, partly because there is no guiding verbiage from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). But “intimacy disorder” typically refers to…

Taming the Green-Eyed Monster Before It Gobbles You Up

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Jealousy is an emotion that permeates many relationships and can drive a wedge between partners. It sometimes gets confused with its close cousin envy. They can be differentiated in this…

Are You Amazingly Close, or Amazingly Codependent?

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It’s natural to want to find a life partner you can bond with. Love is the topic of so many stories, books and songs that you are constantly reminded of…

Images of Being Loved, Cared for Reduce Brain’s Response to Threat

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The brain’s fear-generating capacity is a vital mechanism of protection that allows humans to respond appropriately to potential threats to their safety. From a biological perspective, the brain’s threat response…

Healthy Sex Life vs. Chronic Intimacy Disorder

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Intimacy disorders are widely misunderstood, especially because there is no official diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Intimacy disorder refers to a person’s inability to…

If Your Parent Cheated, You’re More Likely to Have an Affair

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People are more likely to commit relationship infidelity if one or more of their parents also committed infidelity, according to new research from the University of Nevada, Reno.

The Love Avoidant and Infidelity

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For love avoidant women, cheating can become a destructive pattern that ruins relationships and prevents them from finding real love and healthy relationships. To be love avoidant means to resist…

Adultery Still a Criminal Offense at Home and Abroad

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Early in 2015, South Korea became the most recent Asian country to repeal its laws criminalizing adultery, making Taiwan and the Philippines the only Asian countries where adultery remains illegal.…

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Category: Relationships

Category: Relationships

Seven Ways to Help Yourself When You Love an Addict

Loved Ones Can Help Battle Addiction

Healthy Sex Life Versus Chronic Intimacy Disorder

Taming the Green-Eyed Monster Before It Gobbles You Up

Are You Amazingly Close, or Amazingly Codependent?

Images of Being Loved, Cared for Reduce Brain’s Response to Threat

Healthy Sex Life vs. Chronic Intimacy Disorder

If Your Parent Cheated, You’re More Likely to Have an Affair

The Love Avoidant and Infidelity

Adultery Still a Criminal Offense at Home and Abroad

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