What does it mean to be addicted to sex? You may be someone who needs frequent and regular sex. This need not be anything to be concerned about, especially if you are at the beginning of a relationship when limerence is high. Or perhaps you are still passionate with your partner and enjoy a wonderful sex life along with other fulfilling parts of your relationship. But are you someone who never seems to be able to get enough sex and are consumed (and you know it’s not normal) by thoughts of when you are going to have your next sexual encounter? Such a person is known as a sexually dependent person or more commonly, a sex addict.This is not a problem of the … [Read more...]

How to manage your partner’s personality Are you being hurt by the way your man behaves?Do you find you try to gauge his mood before you approach him?Would it be helpful if you could identify specifically what is wrong with him, and why you feel on edge when he is around, always careful about what you say? Perhaps he is someone who plays the Blame Game, and is frequently defensive.He may be someone who has unpredictable outbursts or even rages, leaving you puzzled about the rules of your relationship that keep changing.On the other hand, he may withdraw communication.He may give you the cold shoulder when he is mad about something you have done (and you are … [Read more...]

Do you have a nagging concern about your man being a Narcissist? According to the Ancient Greek legend, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pond.He rejected the advances of the nymph Echo and was punished by Nemesis, consigned to pine away as he fell in love with his own reflection, forever hoping that one day that beautiful person in the bottom of the pool was going to come out and love him. The narcissist requires excessive adulation, admiration, attention, and affirmation, or failing that wishes to be feared. Such feedback is known as narcissistic supply and the narcissist uses others’ reaction to him or her to regulate his or her sense of … [Read more...]

My Ex is a Narcissist so why can’t I get over him and move on? People experience love in different WAYS. Some people think they’re in love when they feel compassion for another person. Another might think its love when they find a person who meets their image of what will be perfect for their life. Others think that love is all about sexual passion.In order to understand a narcissist it’s important to know that love can have different meanings to different people.Narcissists come on as smooth and confident, they are charming and attentive and can be fun to date for a while. They thrive in the initial stages of a relationship because the new lover is adoring and … [Read more...]

How do I stop my husband flicking through and changing TV channels? Some years ago, Karen worked at a hospital with mainly female social workers. When a guy called Steve joined Karen’s team, the girls always found it interesting to hear a male’s perspective on how men thought about things, how they dealt with relationship issues and communication differences between men and women. Steve was always quite happy to talk about his feelings with his female colleagues and share his own relationship experiences which, they told him, is not common for a male to do. However, Steve said that he had learned a lot about himself in his social work studies and was happy to … [Read more...]