Keeping secrets in couple counseling is a controversial topic. One of the things that clients wonder when they begin therapy for their marriage or relationship is if the therapist will keep the secrets of one partner from the other partner. If you were a therapist would you keep a partner’s secret? If you chose not…
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What is love? Sternberg’s triangular theory of love explained.
What is Love? “What is love?” Is one of the most asked questions in American culture today. Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love attempts to answer that question. The Triangular Theory of Love attempts to describe love by breaking it down into it’s components. Proposed by Robert Sternberg in the 1980’s, the Triangular Theory of Love…
Triangulation – Is This One Thing Ruining Your Relationships?
Everyone has experienced interpersonal conflict at some point in their life. What makes this conflict productive or destructive to a relationship is how you handle it. One of the most detrimental ways of handling conflict is triangulation. Triangulation is when a person brings a third person into the conflict because it makes them feel safer….