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A step-by-step guide for coping with emotionally unavailable partners. Living with an emotionally absent partner can be overwhelming. Constantly combatting outright hostility or overcoming subtle distance can leave you with the sense that the give-and-take in your relationship has disappeared. But with the right tools, even the most broken relationship can be reinvigorated. Harvard University clinical psychologist Dr. Holly Parker has aimed her focus on helping real-world couples move forward toward a fulfilling future. She has developed a program filled with practical exercises and powerful advice for individuals on both sides of an emotionally damaged relationship. In If Were Together, Why Do I Feel So Alone?, Dr. Parker presents her revelatory insights on topics such as How to identify unavailable personality types, such as the Critic, the Sponge, the Iceberg, the Emotional Silencer, and the Defender How to create healthy emotional connections and boost physical intimacy How to eliminate habits that trigger self-sabotaging behavior How to set realistic goals for relationships With patience, empathy, and willpower, Dr.
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Holly Parker, PhD., is an associate director of training at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital and a psychology lecturer at Harvard University. She earned her doctorate in Experimental Psychopathology from Harvard University and engaged in research on coping and resilience after traumatic loss, among other topics. She then respecialized in Clinical Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
She is the author of "When Reality Bites: How Denial Helps and What to Do When It Hurts" and "If We're Together, Why Do I Feel So Alone? " (January 3, 2017)
Holly lives in Boston with Guille, her extremely cool husband and kindred spirit, relishes running, studying Spanish, time travel stories, and The Walking Dead, and has no skill whatsoever in pet training.