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Relationships

When a relationship ended, changed, or stopped feeling safe. What to look for, and what to do next.

  • CampaignBreak the stigma

    Men can leave.

    Abuse from a partner is not limited by gender or orientation. Neither is the right to be safe.

    Men

  • CourseBeing written

    Coming back to people

    The friendships that went quiet. Why people stopped asking. Giving people a job. What to say when someone asks how you are and you have nothing.

    Free4 modulesLoneliness

  • LibraryScript

    How to tell someone you trust

    If you want one person to know, how to start, and how much to say.

    1 minute readTrauma

  • ProgramForming now

    Return to Shore

    Rebuilding after trauma, crisis, loss or major disruption.

    From $149, sliding scaleOnline, hybrid where partners allowStarting over

  • CourseBeing written

    Grief without a funeral

    Breakups, estrangement, a life that did not happen, a person who is alive but gone. The losses nobody marks, and how to carry them.

    $294 modulesGrief

  • LibraryPractical guide

    When trauma affects your relationship

    How what happened to you can show up between you and a partner, and how to talk about it.

    1 minute readTrauma

  • CourseBeing written

    After the relationship

    Rebuilding after a relationship ends, including one that was controlling or unsafe. Practical, honest, and written for men as well as everyone else.

    $194 modulesRelationships

  • LibraryHeavy subject

    When a pregnancy ends

    Miscarriage, stillbirth and loss in pregnancy, including for partners.

    1 minute readGrief

  • LibraryField note

    Grief after a breakup

    When the person is still alive but the life you had together is gone.

    1 minute readGrief

  • LibraryChecklist

    What a healthy relationship looks like

    A plain checklist for when you are not sure what normal is.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryExplainer

    When you shut down in arguments

    Going silent, walking away, feeling nothing. Why it happens and what helps.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryPractical guide

    Repair after an argument

    How to come back together after things got heated.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryHeavy subject

    Sex after trauma

    When intimacy is complicated by what happened before.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryField note

    Loneliness inside a relationship

    When you are with someone and still feel alone.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryPractical guide

    Co parenting with someone you cannot stand

    Keeping it about the children when the relationship is over.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryScript

    Telling a partner about your past

    Whether, when and how to share what happened to you.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryField note

    Friendship for men

    Why many men have fewer close friends than they want, and how to change it.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryPractical guide

    Boundaries with family

    Saying no to the people you grew up with.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryField note

    Coming out to a partner

    When you realise something about your identity while in a relationship.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryPractical guide

    When your partner drinks too much

    Living with someone whose drinking is affecting you.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryExplainer

    Money and control in relationships

    When finances are used to keep someone trapped.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryExplainer

    Trust after betrayal

    Whether and how trust can be rebuilt after an affair or a serious breach.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryPractical guide

    Dating again after abuse

    How to move forward, and signs to watch for.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryField note

    Caring for a partner who is ill

    Love, duty and exhaustion when you become a carer.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryScript

    Apologising well

    What makes an apology land, and what makes it worse.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryScript

    Asking for what you need

    Simple words for something many people find hard.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryField note

    Relationships after prison or service

    Reconnecting with a partner and family after long time apart.

    1 minute readRelationships

  • LibraryChecklist

    Signs of coercive control

    Abuse that is about a pattern, not single incidents.

    1 minute readDomestic violence

  • LibraryExplainer

    Why people stay

    Answering the question everyone asks, including the person inside.

    1 minute readDomestic violence

  • LibraryExplainer

    Abuse in same sex relationships

    It happens, and it can have extra layers.

    1 minute readDomestic violence

  • LibraryPractical guide

    Supporting a friend who is being abused

    How to help without making it more dangerous.

    1 minute readDomestic violence

  • LibraryChecklist

    Dating safely as an LGBTQ+ person

    Practical steps when meeting people online.

    1 minute readLGBTQ+

  • LibraryPractical guide

    When the abuse comes from a partner and you are a man

    Coercive control, violence and threats do not care about gender. What it can look like, and what to do.

    1 minute readMen

  • LibraryField note

    Grieving someone who is still alive

    Estrangement, breakups, a parent who changed. Losses nobody holds a funeral for.

    1 minute readGrief

  • LibraryField note

    What to say when someone asks how you are doing

    Four answers for four situations, including the one where you do not want to talk.

    2 minute readRelationships

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