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  Life Coach or Life Partner? How To Tell If You Are Dating a Real Man or a Man-Child by Dwight Bain, LMHC, NCC, & Certified Life Coach If maturity is about growing up, accepting responsibility, and building a meaningful life, then it must be rare. This according to many women who have shared how they felt more like the life coach or ‘mommy’ to a guy who just won’t grow up. You know the type – good looking, fun personality, great talker – but emotionally unavailable and irresponsible. Not marriage material. When some women figure out the relationship is never going to progress toward marriage and kick out the ‘man child’ who doesn’t want to leave, it can explode into a cultural conversation of what is and is not acceptable in expectations about dating. Consider Lauren, who broke up with her ‘man-child’ and posted it, which sparked over 36 million views and 39,000 comments. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/woman-breakup-tiktok-man-child-b2549858.html Why aren’t som...

  5 Ways Codependency Gets Confused With Love by Megan Brewer, LMHC “If I just love him enough, he will stop his self-destructive behavior.” “I can’t say no to her because I don’t want her to think I don’t love her.” “I know I need to get out of this unhealthy relationship, but I can’t leave because I love them too much.” If these phrases sound familiar, then you may be confusing love with an unhealthily enmeshed and enabling relationship. It can be difficult to distinguish the difference between love and codependency because codependency can often be a distortion of love’s true components.   Below are 5 ways codependency parades as love:   1.      Love does not enable bad behavior.  Love does not excuse the destruction of the beloved. It is difficult to navigate care for someone who is hurting themselves, others, and us. Often, we don’t realize that our attempts at loving someone can be contributing to their destructive behavior. For exa...