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In a series of six studies on deal breakers published in 2015 in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, researchers found that the main deal breakers for long-term relationships were anger ...
Perhaps your partner tends to retort with emotionally immature comments during a disagreement, or a snippy friend isn’t showing the cool and calm control that should come with being an adult.
Dr. Pausic says boundaries are crucial in healthy relationships, but they're especially important in ones with emotionally immature partners. "If you are in a relationship with an emotionally ...
One study looked at college students' perceptions of attachment to their mothers, fathers, same-sex friends, and opposite-sex friends [81] and found that when students reported changes in attachment for a particular relationship, they usually reported changes in support for that relationship as well. Changes in attachment for one relationship ...
Partners in long-term relationships often "pick their battles" and withhold complaints to manage conflict. However, withdrawing from conflict has been associated with higher rates of divorce and lower relationship quality. According to communication scholars Caughlin & Scott, explicit avoidance is far more damaging than implicit or tacit avoidance.
Relationship dissolution "refers to the process of the breaking up of relationships (friendship, romantic, or marital relationships) by the voluntary activity of at least one partner." [1] This article examines two types of relationship dissolution, the non-marital breakup and the marital breakup. The differences are how they are experienced ...
Nearly half of all women (48.4 per cent) and men (48.8 per cent) experience psychological abuse in relationships over their lifetime, one US study found, while 95 per cent of physically abusive ...
Emotional blackmail typically involves two people who have established a close personal or intimate relationship (parent and child, spouses, siblings, or two close friends). [4] Children, too, will employ special pleading and emotional blackmail to promote their own interests, and self-development, within the family system.