5 Unintended Effects of Type A Parenting
If you’re a Type A, driven, perfectionist, high-achieving, or obsessive-compulsive parent, you’re probably just as...
Compulsives In Relationships
Differences Between Narcissistic Personality & OCPD
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) have some similarities that can make...
How Self Control and Inhibited Expression Hurt Relationships
In my last post I wrote about how people with obsessive and compulsive traits try...
Does Avoidant Attachment Cause Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)?
According to a study published in 2017, if you have avoidant attachment, that is, if...
Being Frugal: Good Self-Care or Too Emotionally Expensive?
Being frugal can either enhance or undermine our well-being. Depending on why we do it...
People Pleasing, Resentment, & Other Relationship Killers
People pleasing and obsessive-compulsive personality occur together far more than many might think. Some people put all their determination and perfectionism into making other people happy with the assumption that it will come back to them in love, support or affirmation. It often does not happen that way.
Flexibility Vs. Doing the “Right” Thing in Relationships
Occasionally I come across a study that sheds so much light on the struggles that...
How Compulsive Perfectionists Can Cultivate Happiness
Our North American culture has become obsessed with happiness and has made itself miserable in...
How to Let Go Without Giving Up
I often write about how essential it is for perfectionists and compulsives to let go...
Perfectionist Partners and Moral Gaslighting
Gaslighting. It’s become a popular term to describe what happens when one person tries to...
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