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The Invisible Ledger: Why We Keep Score in Love, and How to Stop

The Invisible Ledger: Why We Keep Score in Love, and How to Stop

That quiet mental tally of who does more isn't pettiness — it's what a need becomes when it never gets said out loud. Drawing on new research by psychologist Mark Travers, here's how couples recognise the ledger, and finally put it down.
What Holidays Really Open Up

What Holidays Really Open Up

Most of us go on holiday expecting to feel better — and then, somewhere around day four, we don't. The mood drops, something old surfaces, and we conclude we've wasted the trip. Here's a different way of seeing it: relaxation as a descent, and the murk you meet on the way down.
Relationship Rupture and Repair

Relationship Rupture and Repair

Something happened. Small or large, the temperature dropped — and now neither of you can quite find the way back. Repair is not complicated, but it is exact: four moves, in order. Name it. Receive it. Find the pattern. Come back. Get these right, and ruptures stop being catastrophic. They become weather — they come, they pass, and you're still here.
Edgewalking  Why change begins at the border of the familiar

Edgewalking Why change begins at the border of the familiar

Real change rarely happens in the comfortable middle. Drawing on Gwen's doctoral work on edgewalking in organisations, this reflection explores why couples stay loyal to the patterns that hurt them — and how walking to the edge of what we know is where something new begins.
The Lingering Echo

The Lingering Echo

When your partner has owned their betrayal, apologised and closed the door — yet the hurt still lingers — the work isn't over, it's just changed. Ten gentle steps to quiet the echo and rebuild a shared future together.
Married at First Sight UK: Why 9 in 10 Couples Don’t Make It | Dr Neil Wilkie

Married at First Sight UK: Why 9 in 10 Couples Don’t Make It | Dr Neil Wilkie

Across nine series of Married at First Sight UK, only 11% of couples are still together — despite the experts, the wedding, and the weeks of coaching. Relationship therapist Dr Neil Wilkie examines what the show gets fundamentally wrong about love, and what the research actually shows about what keeps couples together over time.
Three Rooms

Three Rooms

Three Rooms On counselling, psychoanalysis and the Duo Coaching Framework When a couple decides to seek help ...
The Art of Letting Go

The Art of Letting Go

The Art of Letting Go A Japanese Approach to Quieting the Overthinking Mind Some things — shikata ga nai - ...
On the Brink?

On the Brink?

On the Brink What to do when the divorce papers are about to be filed — and you finally realise you don’t want ...
Rising Above the Mundane

Rising Above the Mundane

Rising Above the Mundane Why Your Relationship Needs More Strawberry the Donkey By Dr Neil Wilkie, Duo ...
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