Therapeutic relationship

romantic love sparked in Western civilization. And along with it emerged questions such as how to get a girlfriend or boyfriend, how to keep a relationship strong, and how to deal with a break up. Since then, experts all over the Western world have attempted to develop "love guidelines" to lead those with problematic love lives into triumphant relationships. The first step to begin one’s search for a partner is confidence. According to Askmen, Cosmopolitan, and Wikihow, the best way to “get out…

Long-term relationships are especially important to the growth and development of human being’s maturity and understanding of the world. With those relationships, there are numerous preconceived societal norms from the constitutive culture in which one grows up. American culture creates expectations of how one’s partner is expected to act. In American culture, one is expected to grow up, go to college, get married and start a family, living out that life monogamously. Yet according to statistics…

Communication is the defining factor when it comes the overall state of our relationships with others. Allowing incompetencies to creep in will only make matters worse. During the coarse of learning about interpersonal communication I have gotten a way better handle on what incompetencies within my own self that I should work on. My…

Relationships are our social ties with other persons, ranging from casual acquaintance or passing friendships, to intense, long-term relationships such as marriages or lifetime friendships. Social psychology gives us the resources to try and explain theses relationship and evaluate the positive and negative effects of being in one. In order to evaluate a relationship we must look at both internal and external concepts that can be applied. In high school, a very complicated relationship started…

Generally speaking, Their Eyes were Watching God is a novel about a black woman trying to find true love while being oppressed by a variety of factors including nature and class differences. Men, however, top the list; the main character, Janie, had a total of three husbands, two of which treated her poorly. The third husband, Tea Cake, was the exception. He helped Janie accomplish inner peace by allowing her to flourish into her own character. Janie would not have found Tea Cake, however, had…

Gary’s Environment During Gary’s adolescence, he was plagued with the burdens of one unfit parent and one absent parent who seemed to be doing well. This alone was enough to force Gary into impulsive thinking and irrational decision making. The problem is that Gary was not able to have a normal childhood because he was born into poverty with an unfit single mother and forced to take on adult responsibilities. He had no idea what good parenting or positive decisions were. At only 17 years old…

As the title suggests, the primary emotion of A Look Back in Anger is anger. From their interpersonal relationships, to their life circumstances, anger is the default emotional response of the characters in this play. On a surface level, we can see these motivations as damaged and contrived, this anger is a natural progression of not only Jimmy’s psyche, but the natural response of a deep rooted oppression. Let’s analyze this anger. First, as a response to social circumstance, the productivity…

From the time we approach kindergarten to the time we can make mature decisions for ourselves we are eager to find-- "the one." For many different reasons we develop this sense of patience; some wait for sex, some wait to become emotionally engaged, and some just are not interested in searching. An online dictionary defines a soulmate to be "a person with whom one has a strong affinity, shared values and tastes, and often a romantic bond. ("soulmate")" Mainstream media has illustrated soulmates…

Accepting that our relationship was practically over led to an unpleasant and lonely depression. Crying, feeling pity for myself, and confusion were all side effects I endured throughout this loss. All I could dwell on was how the one person that I have known all my life and…

One important idea from “How College Friendships May Affect Student Success,” is that students form diverse friendships and these help how they perform in college. Author Anya Kamentetz explains that three types of student’s friendship which were results from research by Janice McCabe, an associate professor of sociology. Janice McCabe surveyed various group of 67 and found out varieties of social networks existing among college students and these bring either academic and social benefits or…