Hold Me Tight

I have always been fascinated by relationships.

I watched helplessly as they destroyed their marriage and themselves. Still, I knew they loved each other deeply.

Love, it seemed, was all about nonnegotiables.

...love drives us to bond emotionally with a precious few others who offer us safe haven from the storms of life.

I realized that I could help couples by helping them see their negative patterns of interaction — their Demon Dialogues — as the enemy, not each other.

These moments shape safe connection, and that changes everything.

Love may be the most used and the most potent word in the English language.

For better or worse, in the twenty-first century, a love relationship has become the central emotional relationship in most people's lives.

We need emotional attachments with a few irreplaceable others to be physically and mentally healthy — to survive.

Our loved one is our shelter in life.