by Tiago Peixoto | Jun 18, 2026 | Making sense of relationships
The third pillar of connection: vulnerability and flexibility, in love, in parenting, and in the relationship with ourselves. There is an old observation about trees in a storm. The rigid ones, the ones that have grown hard and unyielding, are the ones that break. The...
by Tiago Peixoto | Jun 18, 2026 | Making sense of relationships
The second pillar of connection: embodied empathy and the rare art of truly receiving another person. Most of the time, when we believe we are listening, we are doing something else entirely. We are waiting. Composing our reply. Mentally agreeing or disagreeing....
by Tiago Peixoto | Jun 18, 2026 | Making sense of relationships
The first pillar of connection: communicating and giving language to our needs so that we can feel, be felt, and be met. In love, in parenting, and in the relationship with ourselves. There is a quiet assumption that runs underneath most of our relationships, and it...
by Tiago Peixoto | Jun 18, 2026 | Making sense of relationships
On the art of remaining close to another person over time, and the three capacities that make it possible. In the previous article, we arrived at a definition worth holding onto a relationship is the ability to stay in connection over time. We saw that this is not a...
by Tiago Peixoto | Jun 18, 2026 | Making sense of relationships
What a relationship actually is, and why intimacy is the thread that holds it together. We use the word constantly, and we rarely stop to ask what it means. Relationship. We have them with our partners, our children, our parents, our friends, our colleagues. We say a...
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