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#456 🔸 The uncomfortable truth about your partner's past: why retroactive jealousy can destroy your present

2 hours ago 2 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.07

As a relationship grows deeper, it is not only the present that matters but also the way each partner relates to the past. Among all the challenges that can arise between two people, one of the hardest to understand is jealousy about things that happ...

#298 🔸 Couples who grow together have a habit the others do not know about

4 Jun 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.02

  Love languages, which I wrote about last time, invite you to look more carefully at the other person. But there is an even deeper level of this looking, one that turns back inward: what do you know about yourself in the relationship, how do you con...

#291 🔸 What arguments reveal about you that calm times would never tell you

30 May 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.07

  Deep listening, which I wrote about last time, brings you closer to what the other person is experiencing. But there are moments when precisely the opposite of calm listening, namely conflict, can bring you closer to yourself, in ways that...

#281 🔸 Why couples who are doing well forget to notice that they are doing well

24 May 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.07

  Becoming fluent in your partner's emotional language, which I wrote about last time, is a process that unfolds over time, with small steps, with returns, and with moments when you realise you have understood something that previously escaped you en...

#267 🔸 What anger, sadness and frustration are actually telling you about your relationship

14 May 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.02

  The balance between independence and closeness, which I wrote about last time, requires something few people practise consciously: the capacity to sit with their own emotions without immediately throwing them at the other person or burying them ent...

#265 🔸 Why the person you chose to be with is also the one who irritates you the most

12 May 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.05

  Jealousy, which we talked about last time, often has a deeper fuel than it appears: the feeling that you are not enough compared to who the other person is or who they might become without you. And that brings me to something equally challenging: t...

#243 🔸 How conflicts reveal the true structure of a relationship

27 Apr 2026 4 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.11

Understanding love languages and the way each of us receives affection, we arrive at a reality that completes the picture: the same mechanisms that function in good times are put under maximum pressure in conflict. And it is precisely this pressure t...

#192 🔸 Understanding the language of other people’s emotions

24 Mar 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.03

Sometimes true relational maturity begins exactly where words end. If in the previous article we explored the courage to express ourselves authentically, today we go further: what do we do when the other person cannot — or does not know how to — clea...