There's no doubt about it. Constructive criticism, while possibly useful, can hurt. Even though the intention might be to help us, certain critiques can send us crashing! Especially when a ...

Criticism is tough to take for many couples because of a physiological phenomenon called flooding. Flooding is a term used by John Gottman, a leading couple’s researcher, it is the tendency to feel ...

Even when criticism is constructive, we tend to focus on how we feel about it rather than its content. But that can change. A couple of years ago a person I know—but don’t know well—asked me to write ...