Searching Pathways Therapy

When I was 31 years old (in 1994) I volunteered for a suicide and crisis line and discovered my passion for the helping professions. Four years later I went back to school and received a Masters in Psychology in 2002 and then a PhD in 2007. For years I've wondered if our romantic relationships were influenced by the relationships we had as children with our parents and my dissertation explored a component of this question. I looked at men's early relationship with their fathers and the way they now relate in their romantic life. Classical theory states that parents of the opposite sex tend to influence later romantic choices of their children, yet I found a significant correlation between paternal parenting style and later romantic relationship style.