Having Sex, Wanting Intimacy

Merging sense and sensibility in modern relationships

Jill P. Weber Ph.D.

5 Steps to Smarter Romantic Coupling

Approximately 40 to 50 percent of married couples divorce, and the rate for second and third marriages is even higher. Here are 5 steps to smarter romantic coupling.

5 Ways Dating Makes You a Better Person

Actively dating will increase your self-awareness, help you to be a better version of yourself, and ultimately take you to the right match.

When Past Romantic Trauma Damages Your Current Relationship

Here are 4 ways to assess if your past romantic trauma is getting triggered in your current relationship and how to start processing the original trauma.

Put Your Self-Esteem First After a Breakup

If you find yourself truly unable to move on after your breakup or divorce, the hit to your self-esteem may be keeping your grief process stuck in first gear.

4 Ways to Manage the Fear of Running Into Your Ex

Breaking up and divorce often bring on a fear in the broken-hearted that an ex will go forward to be amazing, while you just get sucked into the abyss.

How to Lower Your Teen’s Anxiety

Learning how to cope with anxiety is an important part of growing up. Here are a few ways to help mitigate teenage angst.

5 Reasons Fear of Failure Sustains Toxic Love

There is far greater risk in holding onto unhappy relationships that do not meet an individual’s needs than there is in moving on. Five reasons fear of failure keeps people stuck.

Can You Be Vulnerable in Love?

Many partner up for the long term, and even marry and have families together, and yet all along the relationship misses one important quality — intimacy.

5 Habits of Successful Daters

Why is it that some people can date with ease and authenticity while others feel awkward and inhibited? Here are 5 habits of successful daters.

4 Signs of a Relationship Heading for a Breakup

Generally these four factors cause people to eventually break up, divorce, or stay miserably together.

The Power of Your Internal Dialogue

Before willing and criticizing yourself to have confidence, start first by developing a new relationship with yourself. Here are four ways to start talking yourself to self-esteem.

4 Things That Can Turn Any Relationship Toxic

Coupling up and committing can bring enormous joy and wellbeing. When done poorly however, what once felt like closeness can easily turn toxic. Here are four traps to avoid.

4 Ways People Sabotage Their Breakups

Healthfully letting go brings self-knowledge and psychological wellbeing. Here are a few common ways that people inadvertently sabotage their breakups and divorces.

4 Ways to Bring Self-Esteem to Your Romantic Relationship

When one or both members of a romantic union feel positively about themselves romantic bliss becomes less elusive. Here are 4 ways to work on your self-esteem in your relationship.

4 Ways to Overcome a Toxic Relationship

If you're experiencing a toxic relationship, then you likely move in and out of a state of denial about how unhealthy it truly is. Here are 4 ways to overcome toxic love.

4 Ways to Not Beat Yourself Up Over Your Breakup

Instead of self-criticism, use an agonizing breakup or divorce to grow and to better know what to look for (and look out for) the next time around. Here are four ways.

What Toxic Jealousy Reveals

A wound that never heals repeatedly gets re-injured, leaving a person to feel entirely powerless. Ask yourself these 3 questions to begin escaping the toxic jealousy spiral.

4 Sure Signs of a Toxic Relationship

If a pattern of toxic love describes your relationship, there is a way out of this spiral. Here are four signs that suggest your relationship very well may be toxic.

How to Stop the Break Up-Make Up Cycle

The pain of ending a meaningful relationship can be so great that many go back again and again to the same partner. Here are four ways to stop the break up-make up cycle.

5 Things Not to Do If You Find Out Your Partner Is Cheating

Here are 5 ways to NOT react when you discover your partner is cheating on you.

4 Ways to Successfully Manage a Breakup

How a person manages the news that their beloved, romantic partner no longer desires a relationship with them determines how quickly and how healthfully they recover.

4 Ways to Stop Fearing Other People's Judgment

Let’s face it: Humans are always judging each other. Here are four ways to stop living in fear of judgment.

5 Ways to Stop Settling for Less Than You Deserve

A person becomes an accomplice in their own dissatisfaction when they always settle for less than what they want.

5 Steps to a Breakup That Sticks

If you have been unhappy in your relationship and if you have tried to work through your unhappiness with your partner but to no avail, allow yourself to do what needs to be done.

5 Ways to Become More Attractive to Others

Here are five ways anyone can make themselves more attractive in relationships.

4 Reasons to Stay Out of Contact With Your Ex

This is the single best way to accelerate the healing process after a break up or divorce.

Feeling Badly About Yourself Again?

As invisible and alone as you may feel, take this opportunity to declare, first to yourself and then to others, that you are committed to becoming fully engaged in life.

How to Get Over Being Blindsided by a Breakup

Try these four ways to cope with your breakup blindside. They'll make the unreal real and help you avoid being blindsided again in the future.

4 Ways to Determine if You Have Self-Esteem Issues

If you struggle with self-esteem, you likely, repeatedly hit the same roadblocks within yourself and feel at a loss for improving your situation. There's a way out of this spiral.

Do You Outsource Your Self-Esteem to Relationships?

It’s a sad reality that people who haven’t been loved adequately in childhood are often loved inadequately in adulthood. There's a way to break this pattern.

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