Rediscovering Love

How to identify behaviors that undermine love—and how to avoid drifting apart

Randi Gunther Ph.D.

Sexy, Actually

Consider if these 10 behaviors are part of what attracts you to someone.

The Danger of Emotional Detachment

Learn more about the ten most important signs of impending, or already existing, emotional detachment.

Should You Always Be Available to Your Partner?

Successful couples teach each other how to read one another’s non-verbal signs of likelihood of availability.

Taboo Topics

Though every relationship may have a different set of taboo topics, most of them have some of the six discussed here.

Agony/Ecstasy Relationships

Many wonder how agony/ecstasy relationships stay together. These seven examples offer some new perspectives.

Are You Afraid to Trust Love Again?

People who are really open to the possibility of finding love must recalibrate how to navigate these probabilities.

Go Away but Don’t Leave Me

What causes people to act in emotionally reactive ways?

Hidden Messages

Successful communication between intimate partners is crucial to the success of their relationship.

Why Don't You Trust Me?

The seven most common underlying issues that drive these painful and frustrating interactions.

10 Phrases That Create Defensiveness

Couples who learn to avoid provoking defensiveness can expect their trust in each other to rapidly improve.

8 Common Myths About Intimate Relationships

Every person has internalized some myths about relationships from the time they were children.

The Cost of Love

From the beginning of any intimate relationship, love is never free. There is always a price to pay for what each partner is giving or receiving.

When Old Loves Haunt

The 10 most common ghosts from relationships past.

What Predicts a Great Match?

Can we enter the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual world of another without judgment or the need to change him or her?

Can Crises Make Your Relationship Better?

Read about the four behavioral changes people must be willing to adopt to make their transformation possible.

10 Behaviors That Can Destroy a Relationship

These relationship-damaging behaviors occur on continuums ranging from occasional to all of the time and from mild to severe.

Secret Relationships

There are many secret relationships that may not deserve the same criticism or negative judgment.

When Your Dating Profile and the Rest of You Collide

There are three important steps to take in creating an authentic profile.

Emotional Castration

5 things to do if you are an emotional castrator.

Kindness Revisited

Everyone must be willing to be kinder to each other, even under uncertain stress and increased anxiety.

How Love Can Conquer Fear

Practicing the seven Greek types of love during a crisis.

Relationship Crises

These 10 crisis preparation behaviors make all the difference in who a couple becomes as they go through life together.

Emotionally Trapped

Here are 9 common reasons you may find yourself unable to leave an emotionally entrapped relationship.

Are You Long-Term Relationship Material?

Many have tried making that long-term commitment work but, for whatever reasons, do not find that journey either successful or rewarding enough to keep investing in the process.

How Self-Centered Pride Destroys Intimacy

Here are the steps you’ll need to take to understand how you have become an egoistically prideful person and how to change that behavior.

The 5 Wounds of Infidelity

It is common for the partner who has committed the betrayal to continue wounding the other in these five areas.

Can You Read Your Partner's Moods?

Learn about the six simple steps to get better at reading each other’s signals.

After the Fight — Making Up the Right Way

There are easy guidelines to help couples learn the differences between debriefing and rehashing.

Is It Too Late for Us?

For a relationship to have hope, both partners must feel a resounding sense of compassion and instant concern when they envision a crisis of magnitude.

Are You the Only One Trying to Fix Your Relationship?

Are both partners willing to look honestly at their own contributions to what’s gone wrong?

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