Relationships Articles
by Andrea Blundell Considering repairing family estrangement, and not sure where to start? Repairing or accepting estrangement? An increasingly common issue now estimated to affect 1 in 5 families in the UK, family estrangement can cause depression and loneliness. Sometimes accepting estrangement is the only option, or the one that is right for you. And...
by Andrea Blundell Always pick a fight despite best efforts to let things go or not react? Why can’t you stop yourself? And is there anything you can do? Why you pick a fight with lovers and friends There are multiple reasons we pick fights. But often, if we have a very entrenched habit of...
Don’t talk to your parents, siblings, or children? And worried about the long-term affects of family estrangement? Is it really family estrangement? Family estrangement can happen suddenly, with one family member deciding to cut out others, or simply disappearing. But if you are talking less and less, without any real connection or honesty when you...
by Andrea Blundell You love them, you hate them? You want them, you don’t? Why does a push pull relationship happen, and what can you do about it? Why am I always in a push pull relationship? There are different reasons we push and pull. It might be driven by boredom, or by fear, or...
by Andrea Blundell Always secretly wondering, “Why don’t people like me?” Feel lonely when you are with your so-called ‘friends’? Or actually struggle to make any friends at all? What are the deeper reasons that people just don’t like you? And what can you do about it? 1.You haven’t asked this crucial question. Here’s the...
By Andrea Blundell Is being honest one of the most important things for you? Do you often find yourself accusing friends of not being honest? Or is declaring a partner ‘a liar’ the key reason you leave most relationships? What is honesty? People are neither simple nor mathematical equations. So neither is the concept of...
Always apologising non stop? Feel sorry for everything that goes wrong? Is apologising too much sometimes normal? In the UK we say sorry to every person we pass as we manoeuvre our way around a busy shop. It’s a harmless show of politesse. And yes, we all sometimes apologise profusely for practical reasons. Saying sorry...
Does hyper empathy really exist? Can you really care too much about what someone is going through? What is hyper empathy? The prefix ‘hyper’ refers to something being ‘higher than average’. The term ‘hyper empathy’ is used by scientists, such as in the case of a woman who had part of her brain removed to...
by Andrea Blundell You tell yourself it’s just the way modern dating is, that people are selfish. It’s them, anyway. But if you are constantly chasing after emotionally unavailable partners? Then it is you. And it’s time to dig deep into why. Time to stop blaming low self-esteem? Low self-esteem seems the catch-all excuse these...
by Andrea Blundell Have a friend you sometimes wonder if you might love? Or with a partner, and worried you should have just stayed friends? Where is the line between friendship and love, and when should you cross it? The modern mistake when it comes to love Part of the confusion around friendship and love...
