by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Mar 14, 2016 | Verbal and Emotional Abuse
“I am not getting angry over nothing!” Mordy said to Jeff just a bit too heatedly. He really felt defensive and he wondered how he ever allowed himself to confide in his closest friend that he and his wife were having problems. The fact that Jeff didn’t...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Mar 10, 2016 | Marriage and Relationships
“Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most” by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen are from the Harvard Business School, of all things! But that is precisely why we can benefit from listening to what they have to say. Let me...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Mar 7, 2016 | Mental Health
I was on the main avenue in my neighborhood a few years ago after I’d moved in looking for a store. Not being from here for very long, I just didn’t know all the shops and where they are located. I crawled along riveting my head from the road to the store...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Mar 3, 2016 | Marriage and Relationships
I was shocked. This guy was giving me the missing key, the key to why some people’s marriages get better and some people’s don’t. Why hadn’t I thought of this? One simple, not so easy, but simple, nevertheless, solution. I was telling him, “Think about it. Think...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Feb 29, 2016 | Marriage and Relationships
The caller had that dull tone in her voice that comes from having gotten to the end of her rope. “My marriage is at the end. Basically, it’s over,” she explained, “because I can’t take another day of the way I’m being treated. We are strangers. And I’ve told him over...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Feb 25, 2016 | Marriage and Relationships
If I hear another person sitting in my office say, “I can’t change!” or “He (or she) will never change!” I am going to scream. No, I won’t scream. Don’t worry. But I do not get how people can make statements that are directly...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Feb 22, 2016 | Marriage and Relationships
Someone asked me recently if I believed in pre-marital counseling for young couples with strife in their relationship. I said, “Absolutely not; they should break up.” If they are in pain and they have not yet gotten married I can only assume that one or the other does...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Feb 15, 2016 | Mental Health
I don’t know why bad things happen to good people. Why would a perfectly innocent little child be born into a house where she is put down, beaten, or worse? Not only don’t I know, but this particular problem has brought me to tell people that this is a...
