Most of us think we know what love is; we may just be looking for the right person to lavish...
The School of Life
One of the dangers of emotional life is that we find that we don't feel 'in the moment': we're at...
Breaking up will always be something of a mess, but that's not to overlook the far better or distinctively worse...
It's tough of course not to have been loved much by one's parents; but there's a real challenge too in...
Attachment theory refers to a set of ideas formulated by psychologists in the 1960s that gives us an exceptionally useful...
The way we date nowadays has a history that it pays to try to understand as we navigate the ups...
Fractious couples are often made up of one party who is 'avoidant' (hiding their intimacy needs) and one who is...
When we've been left for someone else, we'll be devastated of course, but it's easy to up the torture further...
We tend to be told, from a young age, that the very worst thing to do when we like someone...
From our earliest days, all of us are set on a path towards physical growth and maturity. What is less...
To get tickets for the event with Alain and Esther in London on the 4th December 2018, please click here:...
The death of a loved one is pretty much the saddest thing that can befall us. The French 16th century...
Being polite is a wonderful and hugely necessary quality; but there can - in love - be moments when politeness...
Having an affair is - nowadays - considered hugely taboo and shocking as well. However, that's not always been the...
We know that some of the difference between success and failure in dating comes down to having the right sort...
We all know how lovely friendship can be, but we seldom focus properly on what a good friend should actually...
For some of us, having to eat alone in public in a restaurant is a major challenge - for reasons...
Arguments in relationships are always tricky but given that they are also inevitable, the skill we need to learn is...
The issue of who shows an interest in having a physical relationship in a couple might be mistaken for rather...
We spend an inordinate amount of time concentrating on the question of whether or not we are liked. It would...
