Where neuroscience meets the nightstand. On love, attachment, hypnotherapy, NLP, and the radical act of showing up for the person next to you.
Written by Hakeem Lesolang
And you don't even know it.
That argument last Tuesday wasn't about the dishes. It was about two dysregulated nervous systems trying to find safety in a room that suddenly felt dangerous.
It's a survival strategy you learned before you could speak.
You weren't born anxious or avoidant. You were shaped that way by the earliest relationships your brain ever encoded. And what was learned can be unlearned.
You don't have a communication problem. You have a regulation problem.
Every couple who walks through my door says the same thing: 'We just can't communicate.' But communication is almost never the actual problem. Regulation is.
It's not because they're difficult. It's because they matter.
Your boss can criticise you and you'll shrug it off by lunch. But your partner gives you a look — one look — and your entire world destabilises. Here's why.
It's not about fighting less. It's about repairing faster.
Gottman can predict divorce with 94% accuracy. But the variable that matters most isn't what you think. It's not conflict frequency. It's repair.
Neurodivergence isn't a relationship death sentence. But ignorance about it might be.
If one or both partners have ADHD, your relationship is playing on a different field. Not a worse one. But one with different rules that nobody taught you.
It's what happened inside you as a result. And it's living in your relationship right now.
Dr. Gabor Maté said it best: 'Trauma is not what happens to you. It's what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you.' And that inside part? It shows up every day in your relationship.
And other daily micro-practices that rewire your relationship from the inside out.
A six-second kiss releases oxytocin, reduces cortisol, and signals safety to your partner's nervous system. It's not a romantic gesture. It's a neurological intervention.
The single most misunderstood truth about intimate relationships.
Every couple I work with says they want more love, more passion, more connection. But what their nervous systems are actually asking for is something more fundamental: safety.
She's not shutting you out. Her brain has been chemically reorganised. Here's what you need to know.
Nobody prepared you for this. The books talked about sleep schedules and nappy brands. Nobody told you that the woman you love might disappear for a while — not because she wants to, but because her neurochemistry has been fundamentally altered.
How to be the man she needs — through every phase of who she's becoming.
The woman you fell in love with will become three women in the course of your life together. The girlfriend. The pregnant woman. The mother. Each one deserves a different man from you — and the trick is learning how to evolve without losing yourself.
Neuroscience-backed insights on love, attachment, and the daily practice of building a relationship that actually feels safe. Written by Hakeem Lesolang. No fluff.
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