Dr. Hale focuses on marital therapy with a special interest in fostering couple intimacy as well as addressing potential problems with communication, attachment, and sexuality. A major treatment goal ...

I believe therapy is a space for people to discover who they are in a safe place. I strive to create an environment that will allow you to look at the different ways you define yourself. We will also ...

The difference between real love and codependency isn't always obvious until you know what to look for. I thought I was in love in my late twenties. I organized my entire life around my partner's ...

As my wife, Whitney, and I got up to go to the bathroom at a restaurant recently, my mum exclaimed: ‘Why do you have to do everything together?’ Our immediate reaction is to feel annoyed because we ...

Maintaining a long-term romantic relationship is hard work. There are good times and there are bad and sometimes couples just grow apart over time. But in the new horror movie Together, growing apart ...

If you’ve heard the term codependency tossed around alongside other “toxic” relationship buzzwords, you might picture obvious scenarios where there’s a giver and a taker: A possessive, selfish jerk ...

Loving your significant other means you would do anything for them, correct? Such as finding and cleaning the source of a mysterious, rotting smell or not getting angry with one another after getting ...

In a broad context, co-dependence is wonderful thematic material for a horror film. There is tremendous beauty to recognize in the idea, as who wouldn’t want to find another person with whom they can ...

When you’re busy falling in love, it’s easy not to see the line between romance and codependency thinning. Loving is an invitation to get out of our own heads, to free ourselves from neurotic spirals ...

People spend lifetimes searching for their soulmate, their better half — someone who “completes” them. Finding your life partner is one thing, but keeping them in your life is another. What do you do ...