Most people are familiar with concepts like The Five Love Languages, which help to frame specific aspects of a relationship and what can be done to strengthen it. In my experience working with couples through relationship therapy, psychological safety in a relationship is an equally important but oft overlooked building block for any couple. Have you worked on it with your partner, whether explicitly or implicitly? What is psychological safety? Psychological safety in a relat

Stonewalling is one of Gottman’s four predictors of an impending divorce or relationship dissolution, colloquially known as the Four Horsemen that herald a relationship’s demise. In the Emotion-Focused Therapy psychological framework, stonewalling is recognized as a maladaptive communication dynamic where one party pursues, and the other party withdraws. The more the pursuer presses on in an argument, the more the withdrawer retreats into silence, which is often then perceiv