by DrDeb Hirschhorn | May 21, 2019 | Marriage and Relationships
I’ve heard the story too many times of people who go to therapy to fix a problem and they walk out with a bigger one. The therapist wants to hear what’s going on so the couple obliges by starting a fight! Right there in front of the therapist. The...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | May 17, 2019 | Marriage and Relationships
Peter was miserable and didn’t know why. He decided it was his wife’s, Elizabeth’s, fault. After all, she was his wife; she was supposed to love him, and since he was miserable, she must have let him down in some way. He didn’t know what way,...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | May 14, 2019 | Marriage and Relationships
You don’t know what to do. It’s happened again. You’ve gotten yelled at. Made fun of. Put down. Name-called. Gotten eyeballs rolled. Threatened. Even a little of that gets under the skin. It’s corrosive. Toxic. It hurts. And everyone that cares...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | May 9, 2019 | Marriage and Relationships
I once was interning to acquire the number of hours necessary for my license. I met with a particular family. They were really lovely people. Okay, they would fight. Okay, they didn’t seem to know how to get out of the spiral they were in. I get that. Not...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | May 8, 2019 | Marriage and Relationships
I would like to share with you a compliment I got. I never know what people are thinking until you tell me, and I was very touched by this compliment. I asked this individual why they reached out to me and they said something like, “You have a way forward no...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Apr 30, 2019 | Marriage and Relationships
“WE TRIED COUNSELING. IT DIDN’T WORK. NOTHING WORKS.” There’s that feeling that life passes you by, right? That feeling that things are good for everyone else, but not me. Listen, we are all prey to that down feeling sometimes. It’s...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Apr 26, 2019 | Marriage and Relationships
This is the story of screams falling on deaf ears. For example, you’ve told them NOT to bring up a particular, sore topic, but they do it anyway. Or they’re not paying attention to you, not putting you first. Or they’re flirting too much. Or...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Apr 25, 2019 | Marriage and Relationships
The FB Live was done on my DrDeb-Marriage Counseling Page today at noon. Grab it as a video – it’s still good!! This is not a permanent time change!
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Apr 23, 2019 | Marriage and Relationships
There are two kinds of people in this world. We can call one kind pessimists. They also can be called depressed. Because the definition of depression is loss of hope, lose of belief, loss of a dream. Well, that’s also pessimism. Maybe the slight difference...
