Give Your Relationship A Healthy (FREE!) Dose Of Love
Could Your Relationship Use A Vitamin?❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Want a great Valentine's Day this year? Filled with warmth, sensuality, and connection? ⭐️To have a great Valentine's Day, you need to recharge your relationship ahead of time⭐️ I've got your back - I made you a fun, free challenge to boost your love. The Relationship Vitamin is landing on February 7th - coming right to you! What You'll Get 💕4 guided activities, spread over one week, for you and your partner to complete 🧠 Science-based prompts for more warmth and connection - right now! 🤩 Fun, actionable, and fast tools that you can use over and over again when your relationship is feeling drab and needs a little “vitamin boost” How To Prepare All you need to do is to get your partner on board! This challenge is completed as a team. Other than that, sit tight and I'll see you on February 7th 💌 One quick note - this challenge is called a vitamin for a reason - it's made for couples who want a little extra boost of relationship health. If you are in deep relational pain, you probably need more than a boost. I'm happy to point you in the direction of resources if you need help finding them, just pop me an email, and I will help you find a couples therapist in your area ❤️ If for whatever reason your relationship does NOT need a vitamin right now (break up, very hard stretch, partner is not on board), first of all, I'm sending you love, and second, no worries, just click here to let me know that you can't join this time. Sending you all the love, warmth, and relationship joy you crave 🫶🏻 😘 Dr. Marina Dr. Marina Rosenthal, PhD, LP @drmarinarosenthal connect@drmarinarosenthal.com www.drmarinarosenthal.com |
Dr. Marina Rosenthal
Licensed psychologist helping couples learn how to fight fair.
I recently polled my audience about what psychological jargon you argue with your partner about the most. The most common answer - gaslighting or its more academic cousin DARVO. So let's dig in. At this point, I don't think I need to explain what gaslighting is - it seems to have pervaded the cultural discourse. Less pervasive in mainstream culture (but rising!) is the scientific concept of DARVO, pioneered by Jennifer Freyd in 1997 (who, fun fact, was my fabulous mentor and advisor while...
A recent viral instagram post lead to a dialogue around whether stonewalling is abuse. Here's my thoughts. Last week I posted a few sample texts you can send your partner if they are stonewalling you. Stonewalling is one of the Gottman's "Four Horsemen" - harmful relationship behaviors that predict divorce. Stonewalling happens during conflict when one partner becomes so physiologically "flooded" (feeling intense emotions they don't have the tools to cope with) that they shut down....
Over on instagram, my community recently had a really interesting chat about yelling during fights. Not yelling *at* your partner - I think for the most part we are in agreement that if possible, let's not scream at each other in anger. But what about yelling for emphasis? What about yelling because you're feeling strong emotions? What about people who speak loud when they have a point to make? What if yelling is part of your culture? I heard from people on both sides of this equation. Some...