In this article, I’m going to share about how nitpicking affected my own relationship, and then dive into some practical strategies for shifting the pattern of nitpicking in your relationship.

I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian family that had LOTS to say about romantic relationships. These beliefs and "rules" were mostly fear-driven and led me to experience immense anxiety when I started dating my now husband.

When you can’t stop overthinking your relationship, you end up feeling disconnected from your parter and doubting the relationship over and over again. I know just how distress this can be, because I experienced it for years. But overthinking never got me anywhere. In this post, I’m breaking down the four reasons why you can’t stop overthinking your relationship.

Anxiety shows up in relationships for lots of different reasons, most of which have very little to do with your partner or the relationship itself and almost everything to do with you, your internalized beliefs, and your own relationship patterns. In this article, I'm sharing a bit of my own relationship anxiety story and offering a different perspective on what anxiety in relationships “means” and why constantly searching for answers doesn’t help.