Romantic relationships often develop recurring patterns that can impact their health and longevity. Recognizing these patterns serves as the first step toward creating more positive relationship ...

Relationship patterns keep us safe. And in order to break them gently, we need more discernment and less self-criticism.

The Romantic Personality Quiz is just one lens through which to view relationship patterns. Relationship psychology offers several well-established frameworks that illuminate how and why people differ ...

Researchers warn that even when we start a new romantic relationship, we have a tendency to return to the same patterns that we established in previous relationships. But is this good or bad? A bit of ...

You might have dismissed it as simply having a "type." However, if you consistently attract the same personality traits, problems, or concerns in your romantic interests, there may be a karmic element ...

In our romantic relationships, we often find ourselves repeating or attempting to repair the interactional patterns established in our family of origin. According to Bowen's family systems theory, ...

When your relationship is in bad place it almost always include toxic communication patterns. In her book Toxic People, Jillian Glass described a relationship dynamic in which one or both people ...