One phrase regarding toxic relationship dynamics that has become more popular in recent times is that of so called “mean-sweet” or “nice-nasty” cycles that many people report when caught up...

This is a question so many of us ask after finally getting out of toxic relationships with psychopaths and narcissists. We want to know what it is that made the disordered person target us, what drew...

“Normally when you tell a partner that something is upsetting you, they work on doing less of it. But with a sociopath or narcissist, they’ll start doing more of it. Sociopaths learn what makes...

The idealize-devalue-discard cycle is now very well known in the toxic relationship recovery literature. It is the very common pattern that characterizes relationships with the so called Cluster B...

Some of us may have heard the phase “context is more important the content” but it’s  a very broad, overarching statement that can be difficult to process. What exactly does this mean in...

Many of us experience this in toxic communications we have with others in our life, but we don’t quite have the right word or definition to describe it. Someone is accusing us of doing something...