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Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow th...more

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Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate and control others. We are taught that this will ...more

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Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The sou...more

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Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood fee...more

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The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confes...more

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the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not...more

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schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively.despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still ac...more

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Getting in touch with the lovelessness within and letting that lovelessness speak its pain is one way to begin again on love's journey. In relationshi...more

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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

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Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another.Committed ...more

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All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love ...more

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Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them t...more

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Significantly, romantic friendships can coexist with the fact of partners' marrying because their reason for being is not to replace marriage but to o...more

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None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have se...more