by bdotson2020 | Jan 25, 2024 | Dating, Healthy Relationships, Love, Narcissistic Abuse Recovery, Relationships, Self Worth, Toxic Relationship recovery
HOW TO DATE WHEN YOU FEAR DATING (and picking another “narcissist”) You’ve taken YEARS off dating after your Ex to heal. You focused on your career. On you. Your kids. And when you finally felt “ready” to date and hopped online… You...
by bdotson2020 | Jan 11, 2024 | Breakups, Dating, Healthy Relationships, Life Change, Life Transition, Love, Narcissistic Abuse Recovery, Relationships, Self Worth
You gave your heart and soul to this person. Blood, sweat and tears. Oh the tears. Yes, you sensed red flags right away. BUT, the sabotaging inner child inside of you, overrode all logic, succumbed to the love bombing and honeymoon phase… And here...
by bdotson2020 | Apr 8, 2022 | Anxiety, Dating, Healthy Relationships, Healthy Relationships, Intuition, Narcissistic Abuse Recovery, Self Worth, Trust
You, more than anyone, know your disappointing track record in love. You’re a single, driven, high achieving woman who’s successful in your career.To someone looking at you from the outside, you have your ish together EXCEPT for love. In romantic...
by bdotson2020 | Jan 12, 2021 | Boundaries, Dating, Healthy Relationships, Love, Narcissistic Abuse Recovery, Self Worth, Toxic Relationship recovery
A really common “re-entry” problem many smart women face is returning to dating again after divorce or long, unhealthy relationship…only to find they’re repeating history. Attracting emotionally unavailable men. Push, pull. Still married. Only...
by bdotson2020 | Dec 17, 2020 | Boundaries, Dating, Love, Narcissistic Abuse Recovery, Relationships, Self Worth, Toxic Relationship recovery
Nothing feels more gut wrenching than going No Contact with a “soulmate” who you were sure was the ONE. Or keeping the boundary 3 months later, when you’re just getting your life back…and they come sweeping in, professing their undying...
by bdotson2020 | May 22, 2020 | Dating, Healthy Relationships, Healthy Relationships, Love, Relationships, Self Worth
It’s not about more therapy to rehash your childhood (AGAIN)… It’s not about learning attachment theory and pinpointing which one YOU are, and which one your dates are and which one you should be going for… It’s not about your age, whether...