They say you’re a ‘couple’, so why doesn’t it feel like that?
In dating, there’s often this intense focus, a goal, of getting the other party to say something that makes it clear that we’re in a relationship. We want to define the relationship so that we can know what to expect. Hell, we want to know that we’ve...Jumping into relationships and belatedly realising commitment is involved
Being on the receiving end of not just someone’s intense interest in and attraction to us, but their seeming desire to jump into a relationship can be pretty intoxicating. The intensity creates this romance of false intimacy, and we think we’ve jumped into a fairy...
Why your ex still reaches out periodically: intermittent reinforcement
I hear from so many people who have an ex they ‘randomly’ hear from out of the blue, typically via email or text. And these exes range from people they went on barely a handful of dates with, to people they dated but who didn’t feel ready for a...