Irina Zhuravleva

Isn’t it maddening? Just when you finally start to feel lighter—smiling again, sleeping through the night, no longer obsessively checking their Instagram—your phone buzzes and...

Spesso si insegna che le relazioni dovrebbero essere basate sull'altruismo, ed è vero—ma una domanda cruciale rimane: quando la donazione diventa dannosa?...

Here’s the single moment that tends to devastate someone with an avoidant attachment style — and why that same moment can feel like liberation for...

They walk away and then silence falls. You check their social feeds and see them seemingly fine — maybe even freer and happier. They drink...

Being betrayed by infidelity and dishonesty is devastating. Has this happened to you? What makes it so bewildering is that betrayal can creep into relationships...

Being ignored by someone, especially by someone who matters to you, cuts in a way that’s hard to describe. It’s not a physical blow or...

Have you ever bent over backward for a man — agreed to things you secretly opposed, dropped everything at the slightest call, or stayed silent...

When my marriage began to crumble and we started seeing a counselor together, one comment she made cut straight to the heart of things. She...

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...

I used to fall into the habit of apologizing almost immediately, and while that might seem considerate at first glance, it often creates problems. Rushing...

It’s predictable: whenever someone offers relationship advice, there’s always that comment — “That won’t help with narcissists; empathy, kindness, and love don’t work on them.”...

Many people ask which exact method I used to soothe my nervous system and heal the lingering effects of childhood PTSD. If you’ve seen my...

A pathological narcissist can make you feel exalted one moment and then discard you the next over the smallest perceived slight, and afterward they’ll turn...

A frequent complaint from men is that women are being taught that every emotion they have must be validated. Their point is: feelings are not...

Ecco come capire se sei intrappolato in una situazione malsana e tossica: quando l'unico momento in cui le cose sembrano andare bene tra voi è quando restate...

Sei la persona su cui tutti contano. Sei tu? Sei la colla che tiene insieme le cose, la persona che in qualche modo fa funzionare tutto,...

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...

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,...

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....