LAUREL HOUSE
INSIDE RELATIONSHIPS
I study what happens
inside relationships.
How we choose. How we connect. What makes us feel close. What we trust. What we explain away. And what happens when the relationship we believe we are in stops matching the one we are experiencing.
Words Inform. Actions Demonstrate. Patterns Reveal.
The relationship you believe
you’re in
15+
years in relationship coaching and analysis
The one you’re experiencing
Intimacy Types ♥ Relationship Intelligence ♥ PrioriDating ♥ E3 Matchmaking ♥ RomConned ♥ LoveLied ♥ #iTrusted
THREE WAYS INSIDE
One body of work. Three moods.
01
Love + Relationship Intelligence
Understand how you love, and what you need to build a relationship that works.
Intimacy Types, Relationship Intelligence, E3 Matchmaking, PrioriDating, my work with eharmony, private coaching and books.
02
LoveLied + RomConned
What relationship are you actually in?
My shows and analysis of relationship behavior, from connection and contradiction to betrayal, manipulation, control, exploitation and crime.
03
Speaking + Professional Education
They lived it forward. You received it backward.
Speaking, professional training and consultation, including #iTrusted, with the academic work behind them and my ASU education visible.
15+
years in relationship coaching and analysis
5×
published author
6 yrs
Active eharmony Relationship Expert
E3
Director of Relationship Intelligence
Presenter, National Center for Victims of Crime National Training Institute, 2026
WHY I DO THIS WORK
I knew relationships.
I did not know I was inside a con.
By the time I experienced a romance scam, I had spent years helping people understand dating and relationships. I knew how connection develops. I knew what questions to ask. I also trusted someone who had spent six months becoming believable.
The ending made earlier moments look different. But I had not been given the ending while I was living them.
Those questions now sit alongside more than 15 years of professional relationship work and my continuing education at Arizona State University.
Words Inform. Actions Demonstrate. Patterns Reveal.
INTIMACY TYPES
You can be loved and still feel disconnected.
Your partner may be giving you the kind of closeness they want to receive. You may be doing the same. Both people are trying. Neither feels understood.
I created Intimacy Types to give that disconnect language: five pathways through which people create, experience, maintain and repair connection.
What makes connection feel real to you?
Intellectual
Know my mind.
Emotional
Know my emotional world.
Physical
Be close to me.
Purpose
Build something with me.
Experiential
Do life with me.
A SEPARATE FRAMEWORK
Intimacy Pathways to Love and Deception
Intimacy Types explains how people create and experience connection. Intimacy Pathways to Love and Deception is a separate framework.
EDITORIAL
When words and behavior stop matching.
Developing series
He says he wants a future. Every conversation about that future ends with you asking for too much. She says nothing has changed. You are doing all the work to keep the relationship alive.
LoveLied examines what happens when the relationship you are being told about differs from the one you are living.
Inside Relationships — From Confusion to Crime
How did they become believable? When did something shift? What did you adapt to? What became normal? What happened when you questioned it?
RomConned goes inside the relationship to understand how the pattern developed, and what someone could actually know while it was happening. Hosted independently by Laurel House.
Add “I Love You” and Suddenly the Victim Gets Blamed
Cornell Allegations: Analyzing Loyalty and Silence in Relationships
Inside a TRUE Bitcoin Romance Scam: How He Got Her to Keep Sending Money
DEVELOPING
#iTrusted
Changing How We Recognize and Respond to Romance Fraud
Someone can be shown evidence of fraud and still believe the relationship is real.
My work helps professionals understand how trust was built and exploited, how the relationship shaped decisions, and how to communicate with the person experiencing it.
This work draws on more than 15 years of professional relationship expertise, my lived experience of romantic exploitation, my National Training Institute presentation and continuing academic study at Arizona State University.
National Training Institute presentation, 2026
01
Professional training
Understanding how trust is established and exploited, victim decision-making, barriers to disclosure, and communication without blame.
02
Case consultation
Examining relationship dynamics and helping professionals understand and communicate with someone experiencing romance fraud.
03
Victim + family education
Space for this offering as I develop it. [Laurel to supply final details.]
SPEAKING + PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
They lived it forward. You received it backward.
When we hear a completed case, we know which details matter. The person living it had partial information, a relationship history, explanations and decisions to make.
My presentations put audiences back inside that experience. We examine what happened, why a decision made sense at the time, and how the relationship made that decision possible.
1 Inside the Romance Scam: Coercive Control Before the Pattern
2 Ghost Flags and Function Shifts
3 Victim Decision-Making Without Hindsight
4 Intimacy Types: Connection and Leverage
5 Inside Love: Relationship Intelligence
6 #iTrusted: Disclosure Without Blame
EXPERIENCE + EDUCATION
Professional expertise, lived experience and academic study.
Creator of Intimacy Types and PrioriDating. Creator and host of RomConned. Presenter, National Center for Victims of Crime National Training Institute, 2026.
Professional expertise
More than 15 years of relationship coaching and analysis. Five-time published author. Active eharmony Relationship Expert. Director of Relationship Intelligence, E3 Matchmaking.
Lived experience
My own experience of romantic exploitation informs how I examine trust, believability and the decisions people make inside a relationship.
Academic work
Continuing study at Arizona State University, with a graduate certificate in progress and a Master of Social Work beginning.
Education: Arizona State University
Graduate Certificate in Domestic Violence Intervention and Victim Advocacy: in progress, expected completion February 2027
Master of Social Work: beginning the program, expected completion Summer 2028
Graduate Certificate in Domestic Violence Intervention and Victim Advocacy: in progress, expected completion February 2027
Master of Social Work: beginning the program, expected completion Summer 2028
CONTACT LAUREL
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