How to use these common relationship conflicts to strengthen your bondComparing your relationship to other couples,genuine or fictional, is nothing new, and but nowadays’s digital world — which broadcasts only the absolute best highlights of our lives — breeds a certain piercing ache. One that makes us feel subpar,even when we’re posting mammoth-grin pictures and gushy updates just like everyone else. “I think we compare ourselves to other couples because of the inherent vulnerabilities of being in an intimate relationship. We want to ‘succeed’ in fancy and we are afraid of crashing and burning,” says Dr. Alexandra Solomon, and a licensed clinical psychologist and author of “Loving Bravely.” “Social media turns the volume way up on this tendency.”Read more.
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