Relationships
Changing Yourself Rather Than Trying to Change Your Partner
We know – of course – that they urgently need changing. Where do we start with the problems? They are…
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Relationships
When it comes to relationships, many of us feel ‘stuck’: unable to find the sort of love we need, or to make our needs understood by our partners. In large part, our troubles stem from a myth that loving another human should be something we all naturally know how to do. Far from it; at The School of Life, we believe that love is a skill, not just an emotion – and one we all have to diligently study and regularly rehearse.
Tools for Relationships
From how best to approach a first date, to ways of sustaining intimacy over a lifetime, we offer a range of tools that can teach you how to love, communicate and flourish in relationships.
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The Love, Sex & Intimacy Collection
A gift set to help lovers communicate, featuring The Couple’s Workbook, Connect, Pillow Talk and Emotional Conversations In even the closest relationships, there are subjects that are difficult…
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The Marriage Box
The secrets to a successful long-term union Our society typically devotes huge attention to the start of a marriage – and particularly to the actual wedding ceremony. But…
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Essential Ideas: Love
Key ideas from The School of Life exploring relationships The School of Life has distilled its most essential lessons on love in order to produce a pocket manual…
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Stay Or Leave
A book to offer clarity and guidance when facing the difficult decision of whether your relationship has a future Whether we should stay in or leave a relationship…
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The Couple’s Workbook
Love is a skill, not just an emotion – and in order for us to get good at it, we have to practice, as we would in any…
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The Modern Love Collection
A gift set to transform your dating life, featuring How Ready Are You for Love? and Dating Cards It’s tough out there for single people; at no other…
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Introducing the new The School of Life App
Get all of The School of Life’s Self-Knowledge content, and much more, in your pocket by downloading now.
Relationships in the app
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How to overcome your childhood
Our forgotten childhood
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Gain Emotional maturity
Markers of emotional health
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How to acquire self-knowledge
Why our best thoughts come in the shower
Therapeutic Services
Couple & Other Relationships Psychotherapy
A safe forum in which to discuss issues that might be harming intimacy and closeness – in the company of a fair-minded, highly astute therapist.
Latest Articles on Relationships
Relationships
A Chance to Be Bad in Relationships
It sounds odd to suggest that one of the things we may most long for, and in a sense even…
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Relationships
Four Kinds of Sexual Deviancy and What They Really Mean
We don’t typically imagine that sexual deviants have very much to teach us about anything. We tend to read of…
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Relationships
When One Person Has to Be Needy so the Other Can Feel Invulnerable
Sometimes, without anything being explicitly said, couples come to certain remarkably awkward and sinister agreements between them about who might…
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Relationships
Offering Love to Someone Who Is Not Convinced of Their Loveability
There are distinct challenges around trying to offer love to someone who isn’t convinced that they are, deep down, worthy…
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Relationships
Using AI to Have Better Relationships
It’s understandably daunting to be invited to rely on a machine to do something that, throughout our lives, we’d believed…
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