by Sherry Gaba | Sep 27, 2018 | Psychotherapy, Relationships
Here are some of the reasons why people settle for relationships that just don’t give them what they need We’ve all been in the kind of relationship where friends and family members keep asking us why we stay with “that guy” or “that...
by Sherry Gaba | Jul 5, 2018 | Codependency, Psychotherapy, Relationships, Trauma
In my new book “Love Smacked”, I explore the various complexities of relationship addiction. As a guideline to a working definition and a greater understanding, keep in mind that any type of addiction is something that causes a negative occurrence in the...
by Sherry Gaba | May 23, 2018 | Codependency, Psychotherapy, Relationships
Codependency is one of those words that is thrown around so often and in so many contexts these days that it seems to mean everything and nothing at all. We know codependent relationships are dysfunctional, but it seems that “codependent” has now become a...
by Sherry Gaba | Jan 28, 2018 | Psychotherapy, Relationships
If you are a person who has always jumped from one relationship into another, often with the same type of negative partner, you may be a person that is codependent. This is a learned behavior, often from childhood, where a person cannot have a healthy giving and...
by Sherry Gaba | Aug 23, 2017 | Codependency, Narcissism, Obsessive Love, Psychotherapy, Relationships
One of the most common mistakes people make these days is trying to find a partner when they are coming from a wounded place. By this I mean they were either neglected or abused—sometimes both. If they were wounded as a child, they should deal with this before they...
by Sherry Gaba | Jul 12, 2017 | Psychotherapy, Relationships
According to Harville Hendrix we are attracted to our Imago—what he calls our dream partner– an image of which we carry around in our brain. The Imago is like a puzzle. As we are growing up, every time someone significant in our lives stimulates us it becomes a...
