It’s natural to feel tempted to present only the attractive, agreeable parts of yourself – we all want to be accepted, and even admired ...
I hear it again and again while conducting therapy: “I’m not going to change for him” or “I can’t expect her to change for me.” I understand ...
Do you explode in anger? Isolate yourself from friends? Or act in some other way that causes problems? Like many other people, you may ...
If you struggle with intimate relationships, you might relate to a reader who recently asked me to address love addiction. This person ...
By the time most couples attend their first counseling session, they are far down the road toward irreconcilable differences. There are ...
You might think that truly loving someone means caring about them with all of your being – but you can’t really give all of your being ...
Having a sense of emptiness in your heart can be a soul-wrenching experience. It can bring episodes of intense aloneness, and then ...
You’re frustrated with the way your partner deals with relationship issues. Maybe they ignore problems (which just makes things worse) ...
Though many of us jokingly put ourselves down (and many comedians have a made a career of it), being self-critical is no laughing matter ...
There comes a point in your relationship when you want a commitment. Hopefully, you and your partner reach that point at the same time ...
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Dr. Becker-Phelps is a licensed psychologist in NJ and NY, and is on staff at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Somerset. She is dedicated to helping people understand themselves and what they need to do to become emotionally and psychologically healthy. She accomplishes this through her work as a psychotherapist, speaker and writer. She is the author of Bouncing Back from Rejection and Insecure in Love .
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