In the Times newspaper last Friday there was a report of a recent survey on the top ten irritations that people named in relation to their partners. These were: • Leaving clothes on the floor • Leaving wet towels around the house • Bad bathroom habits • Always using...
In her Ted Talk ‘Why we love’ (September 2006) Helen Fisher describes the Darwinian purpose of love. Love ensures the survival of the species! It ‘pulls two people together strongly enough to begin to rear babies as a team’. She suggests the ‘pull’ of love combines...
Losing closeness The act of connecting on social media of all kinds is really quite narcissistic. It’s about ‘ME’ – my popularity, my selfies, my adeptness at games, my rating on twitter. In a close couple we have to learn to give, to listen...
Over the next few weeks thousands of weddings, both of heterosexual and same sex couples, will be taking place up and down the country. The summer has been the most popular time to get married for many decades and with the British weather, that’s unlikely to change....
• It would seem that there is a fundamental human urge to connect and relate to others – although that may be expressed in a multiplicity of ways. Each person will have their own definition of intimacy, closeness, love, relationship, connection, friendship...
Feeling special Given that it is a human need to feel special, part of the early seduction of a couple is the sense that this feeling is present for both. If you have felt special to your parents or parent it can be the root of your self esteem. When your partner in a...
