Relationships: Relationship Building & Management

The New Marriage - Part Three of Four

Harry Stack Sullivan, in The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry, argues that human beings have a biological drive to develop and establish interpersonal relationships. In Biological Basis for Human Social Behavior, R.A. Hind suggests that a person’s “attachment style”—the way in which they relate to other human beings and form relationships with them—is developed mostly during childhood. The attachment style tends to persist into adulthood but is not fixed and can be modified either positively or negatively as the result of further interactions.

I have had the joy of seeing countless adult clients consciously change their attachment style.

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Dr. Linda Miles, our official Marriage & Family Therapist Expert

Friends - Our Family of Choice

If you recognize the impact that our journey can have -- that we can be our family of choice and sink or swim together, you begin to appreciate it's power.

It's not unusual for individuals to ‘complain' or have ‘challenges' with members of their family! I was told once that it's really because of DNA! Yes, it's the blood line of family members who by DNA are linked to one another like a string of pearls. They are knotted together from one generation to the next in an unbreakable bond.

So, even if you want to ‘break away' from a negative, complaining or eccentric relative, the glue still sticks. That's the way it is.

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Bonnie Ross-Parker, our official Networking Expert