The Wellness Diary

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Lost Libido: How a Lack of Sex Drive Is Straining My Relationship

On a psychological level, it's important to realize that sex drive is not merely about the physical urges experienced by the body. It's also deeply intertwined with emotional states and relational dynamics. This includes the way you relate to others and how you perceive and manage your inner emotional world. Therefore, understanding sex drive requires a comprehensive exploration of these multifaceted influences.

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Discovering Your Influence: Am I Manipulative Quiz

Influence and manipulation, although often linked, are fundamentally different. The main distinction lies in the intent of the manipulator and their respect for the other individual's autonomy. This subsection explores these differences, highlighting the subtle nuances between the two. By doing this, it underlines the importance of ethical persuasion and its role in building trust and promoting open dialogue. Understanding these differences helps us grasp the dynamics of human interaction and emphasizes the need for ethical standards when trying to influence others.

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Navigating the Path to Marital Bliss: Premarital Counseling in Salt Lake City

Premarital counseling offers couples a chance to explore key aspects of their relationship. This includes understanding each other's ways of communication, managing finances, exploring intimacy, and setting common family planning goals. It's a safe space to have tough conversations, guided by a professional. This proactive approach tackles potential issues early on, preventing them from becoming bigger problems. In turn, it helps couples build a robust, satisfying, and enduring relationship.

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How to Get My Husband on My Side: Navigating Conflicts with Your Partner

This comprehensive blog is designed to illuminate the path to fostering unity and harmony within your marriage. It offers insights, practical advice, and strategies to ensure your marriage doesn't just survive but thrives. It aims to bolster the bond you share, nurture the love you feel for each other, and help you navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of married life.

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Understanding Commitment Phobia in Men: Causes, Signs, and Pathways to Healing

Understanding commitment phobia is no simple task; it demands both empathy and patience. This is a complex journey that many men and their partners embark on together, one that is laden with challenges but that also holds potential for profound personal growth and self-discovery. Whether you are personally grappling with these fears or supporting someone who is, this post is designed to offer valuable insights, dispel common misconceptions, and present practical solutions.

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4- Ways To Stop Projecting Onto Your Romantic Partners

Projection is the process by which we displace our own feelings, beliefs, values or unmet needs on to others. We do this most often and most intensely with romantic partners. Our mind tricks us into seeing our romantic interest as someone different than who they are. We see them as a “savior”- someone who can alleviate us from our own emotional distress.

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The Impact Of Soul Mate Relationships Towards Our Personal Growth.

Whether that be romantic love, friendships, parents, siblings, co-workers. We only grow internally through experiences with others. I believe that it is important to reflect on and understand the meaning of the different relationships we have in our lives and to take a curious stance on understanding what they are meant to teach us in this lifetime.

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Navigating the Depths of Connection: Friendship and the Quest for Your Tribe

Friendship. Some of the most significant relationships in life are our friendships, friends are soul mates who come into our lives to be mirrors that wake us up and help us grow into our full potential.  Friends are the family that we get to choose and they become part of our tribe. Humans are wired to have connection and our friendships are vital to our mental and emotional health. 

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The Commitment Phobic: How To Spot One And Protect Your Heart

Commitment phobia stems from unresolved childhood trauma and is an unconscious re-enactment of their internal conflict. Part of the psyche yearns for closeness, companionship, and love, while the other part is terrified of the responsibilities that come with a relationship. Being in a relationship with a commitment phobic is extremely emotionally draining and creates a confusing "push and pull" for anyone involved with them. 

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