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Do people ever recover from abandonment issues? Life looks very long and very lonely from where I'm standing right now.

I like when a partner puts some thought and effort (and yes, a tiny bit of money, nothing to break the bank) into special occasions.

When we adopt the “caretaker” role, we minimize our partner’s contributions and exaggerate our own, which creates an unbalanced dynamic that prevents intimacy from developing.

I’ve been ashamed of my indirect communication style for a really long time. Recently I realized that I was done feeling shame for the way I navigate.

I was actually keeping the promise I’d made to myself and sticking to all the self-help advice I’d read. THAT WAS A FIRST!

I'm afraid that I am frigid. I spent a decade making excuses and convincing myself that things with the next guy would be better.

I am at my limits of coping with my daughter’s depression. She is depressed and suffers from high anxiety. It is taking its toll.

I mess up and do things very differently than I want to sometimes. When that happens, I have one rule for myself: I stop and apologize to my kid.