Mark B. Borg Jr.'s Blog
February 13, 2022
What to Do When Your Partner Won't Work on Your Relationship
To get unstuck when we are too focused on getting the other person on board, leverage your most intimate and powerful relationship—the one with yourself.
December 15, 2021
Why Some People Become Emotionally Distant
Unrecognized influences can lead us away from others when we desire closeness. Here's how to restore connection.
Why and How We Emotionally Distance Ourselves from Others
Unrecognized influences can lead us away from others when we desire closeness. Here's how to restore connection.
November 26, 2021
3 Ways Gift-Giving Can Cause Relationship Stress
Life naturally gets more meaningful at the end of the year, especially during stressful times. Make sure gift-giving and receiving come from the right places.
3 Ways Gift-Giving May Signify Unmet Relationship Needs
Life naturally gets more meaningful at the end of the year, especially during stressful times. Make sure gift-giving and receiving come from the right places.
January 30, 2017
The Sex Test Post-Test
Irrelationship, the defensive mechanism many couples use when the prospect of true intimacy begins to show itself. It can easily manifest in sex and sexual behavior.
December 5, 2016
Can Your Relationship Handle the Sex Test?
What happens when sex brings us too close to the very things that it's ostensibly supposed to: intimacy, empathy, emotional risk, and investment?
The Sex Test
What if sex brings us just too close to the very things that it's ostensibly supposed to: intimacy, empathy, emotional risk and investment?
November 22, 2016
When the Fighting Stops
Irrelationship is a jointly created state of insanity made visible in the mutual acting-out of the anxiety of being vulnerable, intimate, empathetic and invested in one another.
October 31, 2016
Healthy Dependency
Dependency is a bad word in our culture. We cling to our fears of empathy, intimacy, emotional risk and investment and label anything that smells of dependency an illness.
