Unfortunately, due to the way many of us have been raised by our parents as well as societal programming that perpetuate false ideas around love, we believe that when someone worries about us, it means they love us. We equate worrying about someone to caring about them. This is one of the biggest misconceptions that …
What Is Your Primary Love Language?
A common relationship issue partners face is the struggle to find meaningful and effective ways of expressing or showing love to one another. It’s not always easy to outwardly show your partner that you care and many people in society have been conditioned to keep their emotions bottled up and often never speak about their …
Our Society’s Trend Toward Forming Families At Older Age: Effects On Mental Health
Since the 1950’s to present day, some of the main trends and consistent changes in family structure over the decades we’ve seen include: the delay in forming marriages, increase in cohabitation, growth in single parenting, a dramatic increase in women’s labor force participation, and delayed and declining fertility. But how do these profound changes actually …
The Effects of Social Media Use on Adolescent Development: Do the Pro’s Outweigh the Con’s?
What are the pro’s and con’s of social media use on adolescent’s development today? Since it is a relatively recent phenomenon, it is an understudied topic. Platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter have the potential to reshape the lives and experiences of contemporary adolescence in a variety of ways. Let’s explore some of these impacts …
Our Current Education System: What Works and What Doesn’t?
Although most secondary schools don’t prioritize this, one of the most important functions of schools beyond promoting learning is to facilitate adolescent development. In taking a closer look at the nature of our education system in the United States, research and data on this topic has revealed what truly has been working and what hasn’t …
3 Common Barriers to Love that May be Sabotaging your Relationship
In our lives, especially the American society we grew up in, we go about our business doing all sorts of things that go against our true desires and needs. Why do we do this? Through the process of socialization, we lose touch with our true essence (i.e. our emotions) and begin to focus too much …