Monthly Archives: February 2026

There’s a particular kind of fear that can creep in during your middle 30s. It’s quiet at first. Then it gets louder. You look around and notice that some of your friends are partnered, married, pregnant, or planning their second child. One friend in particular seems to have the life […]

In the work of Sue Johnson, conflict between partners is understood less as a problem of poor communication and more as a protest about emotional disconnection. From her Emotionally Focused Therapy perspective, fights often follow a predictable pattern in which one partner pursues (criticising, demanding, escalating) while the other withdraws […]