
Explore relationship psychology with practical, layman-friendly insights into why people behave the way they do, focusing on relationships and applying to friendships and family.
Explore the balance of closeness and separation in relationships, showing how fear and past experiences create clingy or distant dysfunctional patterns, with change possible through effort toward healthy balance.
Explore the S.A.L.T.S model of relationship dysfunction—self esteem issues, authority issues, long repressed feelings, trust issues, and sexual issues—rooted in childhood and adolescence, shaping closeness and separation.
The three relationship killers are withholding, withdrawal, and projection, and the lecture explains how these patterns manifest and their impact on relationships.
People stay stuck in dysfunctional relationship patterns because they unconsciously seek a familiar, safe payoff, avoid inner introspection, and project or withdraw instead of facing the truth.
Option A teaches identifying and healing recurring relationship patterns, embracing six relationship commandments, and cultivating self-love, honesty, responsibility, presence, and loyalty to build healthier connections.
Explore the change triangle to disentangle from dysfunctional relationships by recognizing core emotions, defenses, and inhibitory emotions like shame, guilt, and anxiety, and learn when to express feelings authentically.
Own your responsibility in relationships and tell your truth about how you feel using a simple formula to express emotions without blame.
Explore the roots of relationship behavior, from childhood patterns to withdrawal, withholding, projection, blame, and victimhood, and learn seven roommate relationship commandments to build functional, healthy connections.
Welcome to Relationship Psychology!
Are you curious about why people play mind games? Have you ever wondered why some people are abusive to others and others aren’t? Do online power games drive you crazy or seem bizarre to you? Or have you ever really considered why you fall for certain types or are drawn to certain friends? Psychology has come far to grapple with these questions and finally has an answer to them. No more guessing games with a guy or girl friend that seems impossible to read. In fact, after this course you'll be able to understand more people and their interactions. Although there are vast relationship questions out there, this relationship psychology course has the root of them (a bold statement I must admit, but not an untruthful one).
This course dives deep into the real reasons why we really do what we do, our unconscious patterns of thought that we all have and are running under the surface, and more importantly, how to reprogram ourselves so we no longer fall mercy to them. This course is jargon-free, boring-free (no more monotone-sounding instructors with plain slides), comprehensive but easy to digest and takes no degree or background in psychology to understand.
In this course we'll be delving into:
The root of relationship issues and how it's not what you think...
The modern relationship issues that plague our society today and why
Why you're truly attracted to certain "types" (that goes beyond biology)
Your own relationship problems and how to solve them for good
Myths and truths about relationships that the internet keeps confusing