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• Dr. Glenda Corwin // Glenda Corwin, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and author of Sexual Intimacy for Women: A Guide for Same-Sex Couples. In addition to sessions in her private practice, she offers consultation and online programs for couples. For more information, please visit her website at www.DrGlendaCorwin.com
Lesbian Dating: EQ and Self-Regulation
“Self-regulation” often has a negative connotation. We think it means acting nice and controlled, keeping ourselves under wraps, not letting our real feelings show. How do we get to know the real person? And how does this relate to emotionally intelligent dating? Emotional self-regulation means the ability to recognize and manage emotions appropriately. Dating definitely […]
What is Your Lesbian Dating EQ?
Apparently EQ is more important than IQ in career and life success. You may be smart enough to analyze anything, but if you don’t connect emotionally with anyone, you’re limited at work and in love.
Shelter-in-Place: Lesbian Anger & Violence
When I asked if this had happened before, she said “Maybe just once or twice…” She described years of verbal insults and criticism...but said physical attacks had happened since sheltering together.
3 Suggestions for Love in the Time of Covid-19
For many of us, this is the most stressful time we’ve ever experienced. A life-threatening virus has us sheltering in place, and we don’t know how long we’ll be here. People are losing their jobs and “essential workers” are having to face this virus with inadequate protection. If you’re sheltering with a significant other, you […]
Why Lesbians Keep Secrets
We’re at the point when you usually start getting more sexual with each other. But, I haven’t told her I had a mastectomy. Now I’m afraid to. Will she be turned off?
Lets Talk About Sex and Orgasms
That afternoon, another woman told me that she’d been faking orgasms with her partner for three years...
Lesbian Dating: Falling in Love Again
She was with her first true love for 14 years. Her second love lasted for 10 years. So now, at #3, she wondered, Should I trust these feelings, again? She also wondered, How can I make this one last, when I couldn’t before?
Lesbian Dating: Surviving a First Date
However it comes about, first dates are fraught with uncertainty. What is one to do?
Lesbian Online Dating: Screening for Problems
One complaint online daters have is “There are a lot of crazies out there!” Frankly, that’s a little unfair. The vast majority of women online are not crazy. They’re just like you, and they worry that you’re crazy too...
Lesbian Dating: To Pursue or Not to Pursue
“Never pursue a distancer.” This was the maxim I learned in grad school couples’ therapy classes. It seemed like a no-brainer at the time. How could anyone keep going after someone who doesn’t want you? I would have more self-respect! Until I really fell in love with a lovely woman who was less in love […]
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