Discover why trying to solve your partner's problems can unintentionally create distance, and how emotional presence builds stronger relationships.

Validation is how partners feel seen and heard.

Most people think they know what intimacy means. They think it means sex. Or closeness. Or saying I love you and meaning it. But when clients sit across from me and say they want more intimacy in their relationship, they're rarely talking about any of those things. They're talking about something harder to name. They want to feel understood. Heard. Like their perspective actually landed somewhere instead of dissolving into the air between them. Like the argument that keeps ha