What an empty wall can teach us about waiting for love Have you ever had a blank wall in your home that seemed to nag at you? It was too empty and felt like it was waiting for something? My friend Jim Vanderheyden, a photographer, reframes the bare wall perfectly. Don’t treat it as a decorating problem, he says. Treat it as a creative prompt. Being single, when you’d rather not be, can feel like that empty wall. There’s room in your life for someone, but no one is there yet.

Why doing better isn’t the same as being free There’s a particular kind of client who walks into an In Care of Relationships session looking like the picture of progress. They’ve stopped having panic attacks. They’ve learned to leave the room before an argument escalates. They’ve built a life that rarely puts them in the position to be hurt the way they were hurt before. By almost any outside measure, they’re doing better. And yet something in them still flinches when life ch