Healthy money management in relationships
When navigating relationships, conversations about money bring together two different ways of thinking, planning and processing information
When navigating relationships, conversations about money bring together two different ways of thinking, planning and processing information
In my therapy room, I see many couples navigating neurodiversity. One thing is consistently true: the intentions are good. Neurodivergent partners are often working hard to understand themselves and build strategies that make life feel more manageable. Neurotypical partners are trying to accommodate, support, and create ease. Both want connection. Both want harmony.
I recently had the pleasure of joining Fred Santana, Temi Alchemy and VP on The 90s Baby Show for a wide-ranging conversation about relationships, communication and the realities of modern dating.
I recently had the pleasure of joining the brilliant hosts of The Girls Bathroom podcast for a conversation all about modern relationships.
From the outside, it may look as though nothing significant has happened. There has been no physical affair. No dramatic confession. No obvious betrayal. Yet the injured partner often senses that something important has changed.
The ending of a relationship will always involve loss. The question is whether two people can navigate it with enough honesty, kindness and dignity to avoid making an already painful process more damaging than it needs to be.
Many of the couples who sit in my therapy room today are navigating challenges that simply did not exist ten years ago.
Ultimatums was one of the topics that came up when I had the pleasure of speaking on Vanessa Feltz’ panel show Vanessa. There is a doubtless discomfort around the word ‘ultimatum’. The word alone is enough to put people on edge.
Modern relationships require negotiation in ways previous generations may never have had to articulate so explicitly. Conversations around exclusivity, autonomy, emotional labour, friendship boundaries, finances, intimacy, digital behaviour and future expectations can no longer simply be presumed.
It was a real joy to speak with Davina McCall on her Begin Again Podcast recently, particularly because so much of what we discussed centred around hope, repair and the possibility of recalibration in relationships.