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When she was 30, Beth Gulotta broke up with someone she was sure she’d have kids with one day.When she met her current partner, they both wanted kids, but he wanted to wait longer.She was willing to leave if he didn’t compromise. They had a child when she was 40.…
“Eldest-daughter syndrome” is not an official diagnosis, but it can describe how first daughters feel.A therapist said the common traits are perfectionism, people-pleasing, and over-responsibility.As the oldest of her six siblings, she said she related to eldest-daughter syndrome. Eldest daughters often face more pressure than other kids, including oldest boys,…
On Tuesday, Meta’s CEO revealed a gift he’d given his college sweetheart and wife of 12 years, Priscilla Chan: a 7-foot sculpture of her.”Bringing back the Roman tradition of making sculptures of your wife,” Zuckerberg joked in the caption of an Instagram post that shows Chan, sipping from a mug,…
As a child therapist, my voicemail inbox hits capacity between the first weeks of August.I get more calls during these days than any other week of the calendar year. Even in a calendar that includes holidays, the grimmest days of winter, and the depths of the pandemic — these are…
On the surface, your issues might be about household chores or lateness. But they’re really tied to how you view the world — in other words, your schema, Avigail Lev, a San Francisco therapist specializing in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), told Business Insider.To help her clients, Lev incorporates schema therapy,…
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a renowned sex therapist, media personality, and Holocaust survivor known for leading entertaining and culture-shifting conversations about sexual health and pleasure, has died at 96, multiple outlets reported.Westheimer died at her NYC home on Friday, her publicist Pierre Lehu told the Associated Press.In the 1980s, Westheimer became…
Dating someone new can be scary. Beyond first-date jitters and worrying that they like you back, there are grimmer possibilities, such as missing red flags and dating a narcissist. Of the latter, social media is littered with posts about the idea of “dark psychology” and how it’s potentially used to…
