Explore insights, tips, and strategies for navigating relationships in midlife. Whether it’s rediscovering intimacy, managing changing dynamics, boundaries, speaking up, overcoming relationship challenges, or choosing to leave your partner; these posts will offer empowering advice. Becoming more aware of toxic and unhealthy behaviours, such as narcissistic traits, gas-lighting, trauma bonding and co-dependency will allow you to make better choices.
Are you happy in your relationship? It’s a simple question, but it’s always interesting to me how people often pause to think. Because, if you’re happy, you know you are. You love the life you’ve created together, you love spending time together, and while there are the usual ups and downs of being in a […]
I’m Not Happy With My Partner Read More »
We’ve all experienced that dreaded feeling of disappointment in our relationships and feeling disappointed in our partner. Feeling let down, disappointed, even betrayed by the one person who is supposed to love and support you. You’ve given your all; sacrificed so much, and yet, the same patterns keep playing out. You’re exhausted, numb, constantly questioning
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Emotional intimacy is a necessity for sensitive empathic women in their relationships. It’s not ‘nice to have’ it’s essential, because without this we feel disconnected from our partner. We feel misunderstood, unaccepted and undervalued. Even when we’re in partnership with someone, we feel profoundly alone; the ache in our hearts is constant and pervasive, because
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“When you start to wonder whether you can trust someone or not, that is when you already know you don’t”. (UNKNOWN) I need trust in my life. This is a non negotiable for me and without it I will never feel able to give all of myself to another. There will be parts of who
I Find It Hard To Trust My Partner Read More »
Is today the day I finally decide to leave my marriage or relationship? Am I ready to make the decision to leave? Waking up and asking yourself this question each and every day is exhausting. The day starts with confusion, hopelessness and just wishing that you had a partner where this thought wasn’t even a
Should I Leave My Marriage? Read More »
Do you feel like your partner truly hears you when it comes to the big, important things in your relationship? Or does it feel like you’re talking to a brick wall; nothing is getting through? For me, there’s a massive difference between someone listening and someone truly hearing you. Listening can be so passive, almost
Are You Being Heard In Your Relationship? Read More »
I want to share about the importance of self-care when it comes to engaging in this decision making process about your relationship, especially when you’re a people pleaser with a sensitive and empathic disposition. For people pleasers, we’re often in a fight or flight mode, we can be hyper vigilant and our nervous system are
Why Self-Care Is a Fundamental Part of Deciding Whether to Leave your relationship Read More »
Whether you’re a people pleaser or not, there’s a big difference between fully committing to your relationship, or simply choosing to stay with your partner. Committing means you’re willing to do the hard word needed to have a happy, healthy and fulfilled relationship. This can mean being vulnerable, having difficult conversations, admitting when you’re wrong, forgiving,
Are You Fully Committed To Your Relationship? Read More »
Speaking up and asking for what you want is hard at the best of times, but when you add in the topic of intimacy and pleasure, it can leave people terrified, even more so when you’re a people pleaser. Fears are often rooted in things that are nothing to do with physical intimacy, but in
5 reasons you won’t ask for your intimate needs to be met Read More »
