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Are We Friends Now?
With the holiday season full upon us, it’s time to turn attention homewards. For some unicorn people, there is only joy as you anticipate spending the holidays with your parents or adult children....
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Valentine’s Day Gift Guide: Gratitude
Gratitude thanks for being awesome We’ve been taught that pride is a bad thing, but taking pride in your spouse is a healthy and necessary part of your relationship. Tell your partner what you...
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Valentine’s Day Gift Guide: Self-Care
Self-Care go (hans) solo Give the gift of a better, more peaceful self! Everyone needs time on their own once in a while, and it can be especially hard if you’re parents. Help each other, by taking...
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Valentine’s Day Gift Guide: Partnership
Partnership two is always better than one In marriage and long term relationships, it can be easy to believe that we know everything about our partners. Instead, keep your mind open to learning...
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Brace yourself. Finals are coming.
The final stretch of the semester is fast approaching, and with winter break so close we can taste it, it can be hard to find motivation to get through finals week. Different articles have compared...
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Valentine’s Day Gift Guide: Playfulness
Playfulness share your silly side! One of the greatest gifts of marriage is the ability to relax and just be your silly selves together. This sometimes gets lost in the shuffle of our busy lives,...
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Valentine’s Day Gift Guide: Desire
Desire less Final Destination and more Love Actually Romance is about the possibility of the thing. Nurturing your physical connection as a couple means slowing down to make each person feel wanted...
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Valentine’s Day Gift Guide: Wellness
Wellness healthy is the new sexy Give each other the gift of strong, healthy bodies! We all know exercise is often the first thing to go when we’re busy. Make an effort to get some physical activity...
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Valentine’s Day Gift Guide: Vulnerability
Vulnerability Be a soft place for tough feelings Intimacy is the force that animates our romantic relationships, and it includes many of the traits that we have highlighted in this guide: friendship,...
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What’s the Matter with Hanging Out?
I’ve done it. Many of my clients and friends have done it. Maybe we’ve all done it at some point. We’ve continued to spend time with someone we cared about…who didn’t quite feel the same way about...
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Marriage Interrupted
One of the topics that we touch on in the Marriage is Not That Hard episode is the problem of being attracted to other people while married, and how this impacts infidelity. Firstly, everyone feels...
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Wounded Families – There Is a Better Way to Divorce
Guest Post by Rona Hitlin-Mason, LPC The Washington Post had an article about Prince Harry’s trip to the US to promote the Invictus Games for wounded warriors. The article noted that when the Prince...
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The Unexpected Gifts of Marriage
Marriage is so hard. You hear this on talk shows, on the internet, from elders—pretty much everywhere. I won’t lie—I’m a married person, and I’ve said this. And marriage is hard…sort of…but not...
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Stop “Should-ing” on Yourself
Sometimes it seems that we are at war with our feelings. We tell ourselves not to be sad, upset, or hurt. We say that we should feel grateful, or be more positive. Constantly, we focus on what we...
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Grace, Not Forgiveness
For some time now, I have been turning over the question of forgiveness, and in particular, what it means to forgive your partner within marriage. Forgiveness is often touted as the answer to making...
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It’s Not Facebook, It’s Us
One of the complaints we hear frequently about social media is that seeing the edited versions of other people’s lives negatively impacts our view of our own lives. People we follow online choose...
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Who Are You and What Have You Done with My Kid?
Parenting teens and adolescents is hard. Sometimes parents find themselves wondering if it an alien has replaced their once sweet kid with a moody, irritable impostor. It’s debatable as to whether...
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I’m Anxious, But I’m Yours
Lately, I have seen several articles about what to do for a loved one who is struggling with anxiety and other mental health disorders. Obviously, the emergence of these articles is a great thing, as...
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Four Key Skills To Use When Solving Problems With Your Partner
I’ve been thinking about the importance of language in relationships. Because, as a therapist, and a wife, and a writer, this is sort of thing that I contemplate on my commute home from work. But I’ve...
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Language Matters: Getting Rid of Negative Self-talk and Pessimistic Thinking
Many of us are given to having a stream of negative self-talk in our minds; questioning our abilities, disparaging our character, doubting the success of our future, and more. And sure, sometimes we do...
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