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February 21, 2018

Identifying Red Flags vs. Determining What You Want in a Relationship Partner

Sometimes in life and relationships, it’s just as important to know what you don’t want as it is to know what you do want. Sometimes, we’re only able figure out what we want after figuring out what we don’t want. Sometimes, it’s a painful matter of trial and error. Not the poisonous berries this time, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: abusive men, abusive women, dating, love bombing, red flags, relationship advice, toxic relationships

April 11, 2017

Love Bombing is a Red Flag

Love bombing is, in and of itself, a Red Flag. Emotionally healthy adults don’t love bomb one another at the beginning of a relationship. There may be intense attraction or infatuation, but that’s different from love bombing. Love bombing is a term borrowed from the recruiting techniques of cults. The narcissist, borderline, histrionic or psychopath […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Abusive relationships, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Child Abuse, Dating, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Financial Abuse, Healthy Relationships, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic abuse, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Unhealthy Relationships Tagged With: borderline personality disorder, dating, devaluation, discard, domestic violence, Dr Tara J. Palmatier, histrionic personality disorder, love bombing, narcissistic abuse, narcissistic personality disorder, narcissistic relationship stages, psychopath, relationship advice, seduction

April 8, 2012

BlogTalkRadio: Thinking with the Big Head Instead of the Lower Brain

This BlogTalkRadio program, which aired in April 2012, discusses the merits of thinking with the big head instead of the “little head” and lower brain. In other words, it’s about making healthier relationship choices. Too many otherwise intelligent men and women get themselves into trouble by choosing romantic partners based solely upon physical attraction and/or […]

Filed Under: Dating, Healthy Relationships, Marriage, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Shrink4Men Radio, Unhealthy Relationships Tagged With: boundaries, critical thinking, dating, Dr Tara Palmatier, emotion, emotional reasoning, fear, integrity, marriage, reason, relationship advice, self-respect, values

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