by Carlos Durana | Oct 9, 2017 | Intimacy / Relationships, News
The choice of intimate others in relationships appears to be influenced by two important needs whose fulfillment results in completion, wholeness, and the development of higher capacities such as compassion, forgiveness, and kindness for couples. First, we are...
by Carlos Durana | Oct 2, 2017 | Emotions / Motivation / Positive Phsychology, Intimacy / Relationships, News
The capacity to make meaningful intimate bonds is a key feature of healthy personality functioning. The processes of attachment and intimacy are fundamental to the development of close relationships. Attachment refers to the inborn need and tendency of human beings to...
by Carlos Durana | Sep 12, 2017 | Intimacy / Relationships
Most engaged couples don’t think about it, but when you are planning your wedding, are you also preparing for your marriage? Recent studies have shown that couples who went through premarital counseling prior to walking down the aisle experienced a 30 percent decline...
by Carlos Durana | Jun 1, 2016 | Intimacy / Relationships
Love is a fundamental aspect of human experience. What is love? What is love in intimate relationships? Efforts to understand love abound over thousands of years of recorded human history, from those of poets to theologians to philosophers, for the experience of love...
by Carlos Durana | Jun 1, 2016 | Intimacy / Relationships
1. Appreciations 2. Information 3. Puzzles 4. Complaints with requests for change 5. Hopes, wishes and dreams
by Carlos Durana | Apr 15, 2015 | Intimacy / Relationships, News
At a Caring Approach, Couples Counseling in Bethesda, MD by Dr. Durana, we help couples develop relationship skills, enhance intimacy, and communicate and resolve conflicts effectively. In our intimate relationships, we tend to hold unconscious or unexpressed...
