BLOG

The deeper issue is not that successful women inevitably end up with partners who under-function. It is more uncomfortable than that. Their competence may be propping up a relationship arrangement built for a version of you that no longer exists. Maybe they entered this relationship before the promotion, the business, the children, the financial independence or the confidence to name what you actually need. Their responsibilities, economic power changed and sense of yours

When survival masquerades as strength, relationships suffer. Explore the psychology shaping health, boundaries, and self-worth. Not all manipulation looks malicious. Some of it looks like loyalty, over-giving, agreement or even vulnerability. Besides for women, particularly Black women and women of colour, what we often mistake for “strength” in relationships is sometimes the nervous system trying to stay safe in environments that are not.