Relationships, Love, and Attachment — Articles and Reflections

Relationship anxiety, codependency, attachment patterns that keep getting in the way, the long unwinding of a breakup or divorce.

Relationship Anxiety — When Love Feels Like a Threat

You love this person. You're fairly sure they love you back. And yet there's a part of you that is constantly scanning for evidence that it's about to end. A te

Codependency Recovery — Learning to Need Without Losing Yourself

Codependency is one of those words that's used so often it can start to feel emptied of meaning. In therapeutic contexts it has a specific shape: a pattern of r

Attachment Issues — When the Way You Love Keeps Getting in the Way

There's a particular frustration in recognising a pattern in your relationships and not being able to stop it. You can see what's happening — the anxious clingi

Healing After a Breakup — When the Person You Loved Is Gone and You're Still Here

Breakups don't feel like what they look like from the outside. From the outside, they look like the end of a relationship — something that was there and then wa

Healing After Divorce — When the Life You Built Becomes Something You're Leaving

Divorce isn't just the end of a marriage. It's the unravelling of a life that was built around another person — routines, futures, identities, sometimes childre