Irina Zhuravleva

You believe he’s untroubled. You picture him walking away without a backward glance: composed, detached, already moving on as if you never mattered. His feeds...

Limerence strikes me as almost a metaphysical phenomenon; it winds itself through the wreckage of family breakdowns. It’s an obsessive, high-intensity fixation on people you...

They disappear like hoarfrost under a sudden sun, leaving you staring into an unnerving quiet, wondering whether the connection ever existed. Why do avoidant partners...

Okay, here’s the situation: everyone is fixated on spotting red flags — narcissism, avoidance, gaslighting — wondering whether their partner is secretly manipulating them. That...

Begin with a common misconception. When someone pulls away—stops replying to messages, goes quiet after a night of closeness, or physically leans back in a...

This is not love — and I’ll state that up front without beating around the bush. The intense magnetic pull, the fixation on someone who...

Severe neglect in early life, when caregivers fail to attend to a child’s needs, often leaves a person emotionally porous. You might have built a...

Too often the style and tone of our arguments decide whether a relationship endures or collapses. So let me ask you plainly: how do you...

So the other day both of my kids’ rooms were a mess. I told my daughter, “Please go clean your room now.” My son wasn’t...

They aren’t testing you with words. They test you through silence, distance, and contradiction. If you’ve ever loved someone who once rushed toward you with...

Ugh — pourquoi y a-t-il toujours de la vaisselle qui s'entasse dans l'évier ? Tu es tellement paresseux/paresseuse. Ce n'est pas seulement mon travail de les laver. Tu es sérieux/sérieuse ?...

So, can someone with narcissistic traits actually change, and is it possible to preserve a relationship when your partner is narcissistic? The short answer to...

Here’s how to tell if you’re trapped in an unhealthy, toxic situation: when the only moment things feel okay between you is when you stay...

You are the person everyone depends on. Is that you? You are the glue that keeps things together, the one who somehow makes everything function,...

Here’s a straightforward question for everyone: does your partner have the right to voice a complaint? One of the toughest things for any of us—men...

A major reason people who grew up neglected as children have difficulty building steady, long-term partnerships is insecure attachment. Often they rush into closeness, get...

Je pense sincèrement que si les couples adoptaient une seule règle simple, leurs disputes pourraient s'améliorer presque immédiatement — laissez-moi vous expliquer : choisissez un mot signal, quelque chose...

Bien sûr — aujourd'hui, nous allons couvrir comment avoir des conversations avec les hommes au sujet des relations. Prêt ? S'il y a une leçon tirée des commentaires, c'est celle-ci : si...

Alors, comment dire à votre partenaire ce dont vous avez besoin et ce que vous ressentez sans qu'il se sente sur la défensive, attaqué ou que vous accuse de ne pas...

So I’m stuck — I can’t bring up things that hurt me when everything’s going well because I’ll ruin the good mood, and I can’t...

Almost everything you encounter about childhood trauma emphasizes how awful it is, how broken you are, and how terrible the people who hurt you were....

Okay, let’s simplify relationships: if you or your partner, whether deliberately or unintentionally, lack the desire to build trust, intimacy, emotional safety, or healthy communication,...

Okay — in this video I’m going to walk through five essentials I believe every relationship needs to prosper. Two people can be together and...

Have you ever experienced someone who vanished when you needed them and then suddenly reappeared as if nothing had happened? They message you unexpectedly, like...