This article and subsequent articles are part of a series that describes how gray divorce affects family relationships and provides solutions to benefit all family relationships.
When you hear the word “relationship,” what comes to mind? Many of us think about the feelings we associate with romantic partnerships, whether warm and loving or painful and heartbreaking.
Yet as Pepperdine University’s Dr. Louis Cozolino writes, the field of interpersonal neurobiology understands humans as individuals who are born into relationships. It is through myriad relationships from birth to death that we develop and live our lives. Being in all types of caring and meaningful relationships with family, friends, marriage partners, co-workers, and others can alter the structures and biochemistry of the brain.