Cold Feet

Then it hit me. I was evaluating whether or not Jordan was a potential life partner for marriage. Something I should have been doing during our courtship and entire relationship.

By Jennifer Armstrong for YourTango.com When Kim Kardashian got reamed by every comedian, blog and tweet possible for marrying Kris Humphries in a ...

Projection is a defense or an addiction against feeling the natural fear and grief associate with a transition and the anxiety, self-doubt, and old traumas around love of your wounded self.

Getting pre-wedding jitters or "cold feet" before the Big Day is pretty common, but what happens if you realize you're just not in love with your fian...

From the beginning, her heart and mind and body were still attached (addicted to) the jerk. Equating sex with love, she was completely convinced that she would never feel in love with her husband.

There's nothing like the hot-button days of Valentine's Day and proposals to simmer the myth of romantic love that permeates Western culture to the surface.

Sitting in the church, it struck me that what I was really witnessing was a crapshoot. Here was this couple at the altar, pledging their lives to each other. And as happy as I was for them, I knew the truth: When you get married, all you can really do is roll the dice and hope for the best.

We can discuss sex; we can talk about money; we can divulge the darkest secrets about our family history in blog posts and on forums. But when it comes to the fear, doubts, anxiety, and ambivalence that characterize thousands of women's engagement experience every year, we hush up.