Does your spouse blame you for everything that’s wrong in the marriage? Does she or he refuse to take responsibility for their actions, especially the cruel and deceitful ones? Do you frequently feel forced into acts of contrition, like you’re forever obligated to make it up to your partner, girlfriend or boyfriend? If so, you […]
Emotional Labor as Applied to Intimate Relationships: Sliding Off the Slippery Slope
I keep thinking about that self-absorbed, self-indulgent, self-pitying, navel-gazing Gemma Hartley piece of bourgeois privileged women’s faux-oppression porn, Women Aren’t Nags — We’re Just Fed Up published on Harper’s Bazaar. It’s really bothersome. In my opinion, it’s an offense to both reason and reasonableness. Gemma Hartley: Don’t Call her a Whiny Nag — She Has Emotional […]
Narcissists, Phones and your Right to Privacy
In an era of social media over-sharing, it can be easy to forget that we have a right to privacy. We also have a right to privacy in our intimate relationships — even if we “have nothing to hide.” I hear that quite a bit from clients and the occasional friend who have surrendered their […]
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