Irina Zhuravleva

Discover how well you know your partner with fun questions, quizzes, and tips to boost connection and nurture your relationship.

Imagine meeting someone genuinely kind, who’s emotionally available and treats you with respect. You’d think that would spark something, right? Yet sometimes you feel nothing...

I’ve made some truly terrible choices in my life—really odd, self-sabotaging moves when it came to relationships, careers, and the ways I reacted in anger....

When someone retreats from you, the instinctive reaction might be to chase after them, to reach out, or to try to close the sudden gap...

Questa abitudine stronca ogni conversazione — non occasionalmente, non solo con certe persone, ma ogni singola volta. La cosa peggiore è che se tu...

If someone repeatedly behaves in ways that hurt you—over and over—this is rarely a fleeting phase; it’s a pattern. If they withdraw when you’re upset,...

It can be incredibly confusing to weigh staying in a secure but uninspiring partnership against ending it to chase something more passionate, unpredictable, and risky—with...

If you’re someone who gives freely, you must set boundaries, because people who take won’t do it for you. It’s admirable to be naturally selfless...

You know that moment when someone you love begins to drift — the messages taper off, the calls fade, silence takes over — and your...

When a friend abruptly cuts you off and you can’t figure out why, the simplest explanation might be that the person wasn’t a suitable friend...

Se formi qualcuno nel tempo a gestire la vita senza di te, non sorprenderti quando alla fine se ne andrà. Impegno e fedeltà significano molto di più...

Most people who have been in a relationship know what it’s like to fall in love, and many of us have also experienced the pain...

Quando si pensa alla mancanza di rispetto in una relazione, molti immaginano litigi furiosi, porte sbattute o un tradimento palese. Ma cosa succede se il danno è silenzioso?...

The hard truth is that roughly one out of every three romantic partnerships will face some form of infidelity — that’s the bleak part. The...

How many times have you asked for something that should have been simple and reasonable, only for it to erupt into another argument where they...

There are everyday behaviors you repeat without noticing that quietly undermine your relationships, your self-esteem, and the life you could have. These aren’t dramatic meltdowns...

If you want to recover from the wounds left by childhood trauma, you will find yourself in a confrontation between forces that feel like good...

Let me explain why the Golden Rule can actually work against your relationship. So what is the Golden Rule? In its simplest form it says:...

The quickest way to undermine a relationship is to ignore what it requires to thrive. When people say, “You shouldn’t have needs in a relationship,”...

My fear of being left in the future led me to abandon my own needs in the here and now. I constantly put everyone else...

You’re having an ordinary conversation and someone drops a small comment — “don’t be so sensitive,” “you’re overreacting,” or the one that lands like a...

Circa 30% di coppie — sia che stiano frequentando qualcuno o siano sposate — riferiscono di aver sperimentato una qualche forma di infedeltà, e quel numero riflette solo ciò che è stato divulgato. Dopo...

Crescere con un trauma influisce su ogni persona in modo diverso, ma i modelli di sintomi che possono manifestarsi più tardi nella vita sono sorprendentemente simili per molti di...

Credimi, da dura esperienza: distruggere un matrimonio è quasi sempre molto più facile che ricostruirlo. Ci vuole molto meno sforzo per lasciare andare una relazione...