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Ghosted in Your Relationship: When He Disconnects While Still Being There
Today I want to talk about a phenomenon I've been observing with increasing frequency in my practice: emotional ghosting within...
Michelle Martins de Oliveira
Jun 115 min read
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Is the Relationship Effort All Yours? Diving into Relationship Imbalance
A frequent complaint I hear in my practice is from people who feel like they're carrying the weight alone. You know that feeling? The...
Michelle Martins de Oliveira
Jun 74 min read
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I Left My Family and I Feel Guilty: How to Cope with This Emotion While Living Abroad
Choosing to build a life outside your home country is a huge step — filled with dreams, challenges, and layered with complex emotions....
Michelle Martins de Oliveira
Jun 44 min read
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Couples Therapy or Divorce? How to Know if It’s Time to Fight for Your Marriage or Let Go
At some point in many relationships, a painful and complex question arises:Â "Should we try to save this marriage or is divorce the...
Michelle Martins de Oliveira
May 303 min read
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Intercultural Relationships: The Challenges and Joys of Loving Someone from a Different Culture
Being in an intercultural relationship is like learning a new language Love, in itself, is already an adventure. But when it crosses...
Michelle Martins de Oliveira
May 274 min read
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Expatriate Loneliness: 7 Strategies to Feel Less Alone and More Connected
Living abroad can be amazing. But it can also be lonely—and nobody talks about that. In this article, I want to show you 7 strategies...
Michelle Martins de Oliveira
May 224 min read
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Relationship Communication: 5 Fatal Errors That Drive Couples Apart (and How to Fix Them)
What no one tells you about how to communicate in love Communication is about how we connect, how we feel welcomed or attacked, heard or...
Michelle Martins de Oliveira
May 204 min read
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Finding Love in the Minefield: Navigating Relationship and Couple's Therapy with Humor and Wisdom.
When we think about couple's therapy, it's easy to picture a quiet room where secrets and resentments are unearthed under the watchful...
Michelle Martins de Oliveira
Mar 17, 20242 min read
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