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fear of intimacy, psychalive

5 Strategies for Dealing With Your Partner’s Fear of Intimacy

…Dr. Pat Love says, “Feel your feelings, then do the right thing.” Identify patterns When people feel close, they react. Sometimes these reactions are positive, and sometimes they are negative. The reasons for this are complex and have a lot to do with how we’ve learned to see ourselves and the world around us throughout our lives. We may respond perversely to positive treatment, because it conflicts with negative ways we’re used to being seen or r…

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Sexting, Technology and Relationships

Is Sexting Cheating You Out Of Real Intimacy?

…the tough start texting. This problem is one that has been explored by Dr. Pat Love, the acclaimed author of “The Truth About Love” and “Hot Monogamy,” and it’s one I discussed with her recently when we were recording our upcoming webinar, “Love in the Time of Twitter.” We wanted to explore how interpersonal relationships have been impacted by new media and explore how love can be preserved in the face of such colossal distraction. As Love recentl…

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How To Be Loving in the Time of Twitter

…our closest relationships. An Aug. 2 CE Webinar I am hosting featuring Dr. Pat Love, the acclaimed author of The Truth About Love and Hot Monogamy, will explore “Love in the Time of Twitter.” The Webinar will look at how interpersonal relationships have been impacted by new media and explore how love can be preserved in the face of such colossal distraction. In an interview with Dr. Love that I did for PsychAlive.org, she explained that there are…

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The Facebook Effect: Benefits and Risks of Social Networking

…he benefits and consequences of social networking, click here. Find out more about how social networking can affect your relationship with Pat Love’s CE Webinar on Love in the Age of Twitter….

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Changing the Way You See the World

…still choose how we act based on our real self and our principles. As Dr. Pat Love puts it, “Feel the feelings but do the right thing.” Once we’re in a calmer state, we can try to meet any “critical inner voices,” or mean, negative thoughts we’re telling ourselves with a kinder, more realistic point of view. As we do this, we should remember that we’re human, and that not every thought or feeling we experience in a moment must be accepted as trut…

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