by Dr. Gayle Friend | COMMUNICATION |
You’ve no doubt heard the phrase, silence is golden. Well, the truth is silence can either destroy your love and relationship or strengthen it – depending how you use it. How do you respond when your partner, or anyone else, says or does something that gets under your...
by Dr. Gayle Friend | COMMUNICATION |
I think it’s time we take a new look at empathy and rewrite its definition and what it sounds like. The current popular version is that to be empathetic means you have to be able to feel what the other person is feeling. But I see a problem with this. If another...
by Dr. Gayle Friend | COMMUNICATION, RELATIONSHIPS |
Relationships can be deliciously breathtaking and at times ridiculously frustrating. It depends in part how we react or respond to relationship challenges. Here’s a list of opportunities where relationships provide us the option to step in and grow, rather than resist...
by Dr. Gayle Friend | COMMUNICATION, RELATIONSHIPS |
Ever try putting together a piece of Ikea furniture with someone you’re annoyed with? Whether you have or you haven’t, can you imagine how that would go? A few decades ago there was a dating service in Vancouver that used Ikea as their gimmick to determine...
by Dr. Gayle Friend | COMMUNICATION, INTIMACY, RELATIONSHIPS |
Sharing your thoughts and feelings openly elevates your level of emotional intimacy and draws you closer. But what if you’re missing that? What if your partner doesn’t open up the way you wish they did? Wanting your partner to open up to you, but feeling their...
by Dr. Gayle Friend | COMMUNICATION, RELATIONSHIPS |
5 Common Relationship Myths Being in love is an amazing feeling and worth hanging on to. But in the face of troubled times it can feel like love is slipping away. Relationship myths are born all the time that we accept as truth because we’ve never been taught...