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Future Faking Is a Relationship Abuse Tactic You Should Know

Clinically Reviewed By: Clary Figueroa

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

Common Signs of An Abusive Relationship, According to Therapists

Clinically Reviewed By: Meghan Jensen

Written By: Sarah Fielding

A man comforts his partner who has bipolar disorder.

What to Know When Dating Someone With Bipolar Disorder

Clinically Reviewed By: Sarah Lyter

Written By: Alex Bachert, MPH

A woman wonders how long it takes to get over her ex.

How Long Does It Actually Take to Get Over Your Ex?

Clinically Reviewed By: Sarah Lyter

Written By: Ashley Laderer

A couple who has experienced relationship OCD has healed from it.

Here’s What Relationship OCD Looks Like (and How to Heal)

Clinically Reviewed By: Sarah Lyter

Written By: Sarah Fielding

A woman is overthinking after being cheated on.

Overcoming Betrayal: How to Stop Overthinking After Being Cheated On

Clinically Reviewed By: Sarah Lyter

Written By: Alex Bachert, MPH

Overcoming Avoidant Attachment Is Possible — Here’s How

Clinically Reviewed By: Meghan Jensen

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

A man holds his friends hand who is currently healing from a breakup.

7 Signs You’re Healing From a Breakup

Clinically Reviewed By: Meghan Jensen

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

A woman is dealing with the toxic person in her life.

7 Tips for How to Deal With Toxic People in Your Life

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

A family is talking about how to deal with manipulative people.

Here’s How to Deal With Manipulative People

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

Teen and their parent talking about their codependency with them partner

Here’s How to Stop Being Codependent

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Sarah Fielding

A person dealing with reactive abuse in her relationship crosses her arms as she looks at her partner.

What Is Reactive Abuse?

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Alex Bachert, MPH

Couple in the middle of a fight look away from each other

Yes, Being in a Toxic Relationship Affects Your Mental Health—Here’s What to Do

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

A young woman realizes friendship breakups really hurt and is wanting to learn how to heal.

Yes, Friendship Breakups Really Hurt—Here’s How to Heal

Clinically Reviewed By: Sarah Lyter

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

A young couple doesn't know if they are experiencing infatuation or obsessive love disorder.

Is It Infatuation or Obsessive Love Disorder?

Clinically Reviewed By: Sarah Lyter

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

A young couple struggles with dismissive avoidant attachment in their relationship.

Everything You Need to Know About Dating Someone With Dismissive Avoidant Attachment

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Alex Bachert, MPH

A young woman is feeling green with retroactive jealousy and wants to learn how to cope.

Feeling Green With Retroactive Jealousy? Here’s How to Cope

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

A young woman needs a guide for how to detach from someone.

A Guide for How to Detach From Someone

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

A couple, one is on the back of another, who are in love, not limerence.

Are You in Love or Is It Limerence?

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

A young woman experiences narcissistic financial abuse and is learning ways to cope.

Narcissistic Financial Abuse Signs You Should Know (and Ways to Cope)

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Alex Bachert, MPH

A young couple doesn't know if they are in love or if it is a trauma bond.

Are You in Love or Is It a Trauma Bond?

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

Two siblings are navigating whether they have a sibling rivalry or a toxic relationship.

Do You Have a Sibling Rivalry or a Toxic Sibling?

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Ethan Cohen BSN, RN

A teenager is having conflict avoidance and wants to know what it looks like and what to do about it.

Here’s What Conflict Avoidance Looks Like (and What to Do About It)

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Sarah Fielding

A young woman is having relationship issues due to attachment trauma.

Is Attachment Trauma Causing Your Relationship Issues?

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Sarah Fielding

A young couple walks away from the train. They are experiencing separation anxiety in their relationship and are interested in ways to cope.

What Separation Anxiety in Relationships Looks Like (and How to Cope)

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Sarah Fielding

A young teenager sits with her friend. She is hyperfixating on her friend.

6 Tips to Stop Hyperfixating on a Person

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Dr. Rasna Kaur Neelam

A young couple sit on their couch at home. The female realizes her partner gaslights her in their relationship.

What Gaslighting in a Relationship Actually Looks Like

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Sarah duRivage-Jacobs

A young man looks out of his window upset. He wants to fix his attachment issues and us using therapist-approved tips to do this.

5 Therapist-Approved Tips for How to Fix Attachment Issues

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Sarah Fielding

A young woman and man argue at home. Stonewalling could be hurting their relationship.

Stonewalling Could Be Hurting Your Relationship

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Ashley Laderer

A chosen family of three teen friends sit together smiling

Why Chosen Family Is Important During the Holidays (and Year Round)

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Ashley Laderer

A young woman sits on the couch, away from her boyfriend. She is in an abusive relationship and is feeling like it is so hard to leave.

Why Are Abusive Relationships So Hard to Leave?

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Sarah duRivage-Jacobs

A young woman sits at her home. She is a survivor of intimate partner violence and it has affected her mental health.

Here’s How Intimate Partner Violence Impacts Survivors’ Mental Health

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Sarah duRivage-Jacobs

A young woman in an orange sweater hugs her partner in a yellow shirt. She is dating someone with depression and uses tips to help her partner.

Dating Someone With Depression? Here’s Tips for How to Help Your Partner

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Sarah duRivage-Jacobs

A young teen boy deals sits with his parents who are not taking care of his needs

Dismissive Avoidant Attachment Style: What You Need to Know

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Dr. Rasna Kaur Neelam

A young woman sits on her bed after arguing with her partner. Her partner has toxic behaviors that affects their relationship.

How to Stop Being Toxic in Your Relationships

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Sarah duRivage-Jacobs

A teen girl in glasses sits at her computer dealing with anxiety

Do You Have an Anxious Attachment Style?

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Dr. Rasna Kaur Neelam

Two female teenage friends hugging each other. They have set healthy boundaries to strengthen their friendship.

How to Set Healthy Boundaries

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Sarah duRivage-Jacobs

A young female in a white shirt wearing a colorful headband. She has been single for a long time and has encountered some psychological effects from it.

7 Psychological Effects of Being Single for a Long Time

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

Friends embracing

Attachment Style Quiz

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

A couple upset in bed at home

Signs of an Unhealthy Relationship

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Alex Bachert, MPH

A young woman in a green shirt sits with her partner in a blue shirt. She has anxiety and they are discussing the ways in which he can best support her.

How to Be Supportive When Dating Someone With Anxiety

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Sarah duRivage-Jacobs

A woman in a white shirt cries while holding the hand of her partner with whom she is codependent.

Codependency: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, and More

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

A person with OCD sits at a desk smiling in an orange shirt and another person sits next to her.

The Impact of OCD on Relationships

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Ethan Cohen BSN, RN

Two young people smile while looking at a phone as they watch TikTok videos of beige flags.

What Is A Beige Flag?

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

Couple talking to each other looking sad

Idealization and Devaluation: What You Need To Know

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Ethan Cohen BSN, RN

Couple sitting and talking

What to Know When Dating Someone with PTSD

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Alex Bachert, MPH

Woman masking her feelings

What is Masking?

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

Couple taking a photo together

Consent 101

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Sarah Fielding

Couple in codependent relationship fighting

Therapy for Codependency

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Alex Bachert, MPH

Couple talking about consent

How Do You Ask for Affirmative Consent?

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Dr. Rasna Kaur Neelam

Teens on a first date

Dating After Sexual Assault

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Alex Bachert, MPH

An individual struggling with narcissistic abuse sits alone

Signs and Symptoms of the Narcissistic Abuse Cycle

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Sarah duRivage-Jacobs

A young woman in an unhealthy relationship is love bombed by her boyfriend.

What is Love Bombing?

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Dr. Rasna Kaur Neelam

A young man stares off into the distance thinking about his fear of commitment

Why Do People Have a Phobia of Commitment?

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Charlie Health Editorial Team

A young woman with a secure attachment style sits on a peer by a lake looking off into the distance

Do You Have a Secure Attachment Style?

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Dr. Rasna Kaur Neelam

A young teen male sits with his back toward his mother avoiding conflict

Do You Have an Avoidant Attachment Style?

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Dr. Rasna Kaur Neelam

A father stands with his arm wrapped around his teenage daughter

What Are the Four Attachment Styles?

Clinically Reviewed By: Dr. Don Gasparini

Written By: Dr. Rasna Kaur Neelam

teens stand and talk together on a mountain at sunset

How to Discuss Dating Violence with Your Teen

Written By: Alex Bachert, MPH

a couple sitting on a crate together looking out into the ocean

Teen LGBTQIA+ Intimate Partner Violence: Know the Signs

Written By: Alex Bachert, MPH

Woman standing in the distance

Understanding Intimate Partner Violence for Teens

Written By: Alex Bachert, MPH

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