Meet Dr. Jennie Rosier

Dr. Jennie Rosier is the director of the Relationships, Love, Happiness Project. Through the RLH Project, she shares insights on adult attachment, communication, and personal growth — blending research-grounded knowledge with warm, relatable guidance. Her work spans blog articles, books, and resources designed to help people navigate the complexities of love and connection. Ever wondered what truly separates loving someone from being in love with them? Our deep dive The Difference Between Loving Someone and Being in Love with Them explores this subtle but powerful distinction.

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Learn to communicate your desires openly and respectfully with our latest guide. Talking About Sexual Needs With Confidence And Care offers practical steps for navigating this intimate conversation. The Relationships, Love, Happiness Project is built on the understanding that our earliest bonds shape how we connect as adults. Rooted in attachment theory, the project explores how childhood experiences with parents and caregivers influence the expectations we carry into romantic relationships. Whether we tend toward secure, anxious, or dismissive attachment patterns, understanding where these tendencies come from is the first step toward healthier connection. By bringing research-grounded insights into everyday language, the project helps readers recognize their own relational blueprints and begin the gentle work of rewriting them where needed.

Communication sits at the heart of every thriving relationship, and yet it is often the area where couples struggle most. The project's resources explore practical approaches to talking through conflict, expressing needs without blame, and truly listening when a partner speaks. From navigating everyday disagreements about chores and schedules to addressing deeper emotional wounds, the guidance offered emphasizes empathy and curiosity over defensiveness. Learning to communicate well is not about winning arguments but about building bridges of understanding that allow both partners to feel seen, heard, and valued in the relationship.

Expectations play a powerful role in how we experience love, and the project examines both the helpful and the harmful ways those expectations operate. Many of us enter relationships carrying unspoken assumptions about how a partner should behave, how often we should talk, or what romance should look like. When those expectations go unexamined, they can lead to disappointment and resentment. The project encourages readers to bring their expectations into the light, examine where they came from, and align them with reality and with their partner's genuine needs and capacities.

Personal growth is inseparable from relational health, and the RLH Project treats them as two sides of the same coin. The resources emphasize that becoming a better partner often begins with becoming more honest with ourselves about our own patterns, triggers, and fears. Through reflective exercises and thoughtful articles, readers are invited to consider how their own anxiety, avoidance, or people-pleasing tendencies show up in their relationships. This inward work, while sometimes uncomfortable, creates the foundation for more authentic and fulfilling connections with others.

The project also speaks to the journey of parenting and how the way we raise children influences their future relational lives. From prenatal classes to the early months of a baby's arrival, the content acknowledges that becoming a parent reshapes every dimension of a relationship. The excitement and anticipation of welcoming a child are celebrated, while the very real challenges of sleep deprivation, divided attention, and shifting roles are addressed with honesty. Parents are offered tools for maintaining connection with each other even as their attention necessarily expands to include their children.

Adult attachment is a recurring theme throughout the project's articles, and for good reason. The ways we learned to cope with closeness and distance in childhood continue to play out in our romantic lives, often without our awareness. Those with anxious attachment may seek constant reassurance, while those with dismissive tendencies may pull away when intimacy deepens. The project helps readers identify these patterns in themselves and their partners, offering compassionate frameworks for understanding behavior that might otherwise seem confusing or frustrating.

Flirting, dating, and the early stages of romantic connection are explored with the same depth as long-term relationship maintenance. The project recognizes that the beginning of love carries its own anxieties and joys, from reading subtle signals to managing the vulnerability of putting oneself out there. Practical guidance on picking up on cues, expressing interest authentically, and navigating the uncertainty of new romance is offered alongside broader reflections on what makes attraction and compatibility genuinely work over time.

Books and written resources form a significant part of the project's outreach, providing readers with deeper dives into the topics covered in shorter articles. These materials are designed to be both accessible and substantive, bridging the gap between academic research and real-life application. Whether someone is newly married, many years into a partnership, or single and hoping to understand their patterns better, the written resources aim to meet readers where they are and walk alongside them as they grow in relational wisdom.

The RLH Project extends beyond individual readers to broader community engagement, including conversations with guest writers and experts who bring diverse perspectives on love, attachment, and happiness. The project's digital presence includes a blog series that tackles topics ranging from morning routines and household responsibilities to deep emotional conversations and everything in between. Through its multi-faceted approach, the project aims to be a welcoming space where people can find encouragement, practical tools, and a sense of shared humanity in the universal struggle to love and be loved well.