Our Growth After Childhood Trauma The content of my blogpost is mostly conveyed through my animated video, below – a claymation that touches on Marina Abramović, George Vaillant’s concept of “mature defenses,” and some personal musing. My words follow, too – but you can click…

February 17, 2021 in The Psychology of Relationships https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-psychology-relationships/202102/where-is-going-deciding-the-future-your-relationship Key Points: New research on how individuals decide whether or not to stay with their current partner identified 27 factors that influenced people to stay, and 23 that led them to want to leave. But the…

Home As people, and as a culture, Alain de Botton says, we would be much saner and happier if we reexamined our very view of love. His New York Times essay, “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person,” is one of their most-read articles in…