by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Feb 11, 2016 | Marriage and Relationships
How is it possible to love someone you never met, never saw, and know nothing about? It happens every day to hundreds of thousands of people. Just ask a pregnant woman how she feels about her unborn baby. Even more strange is how is it possible for a couple who is...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Feb 8, 2016 | Mental Health
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by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Feb 4, 2016 | Marriage and Relationships
Hey, don’t just take my word for it! Let’s see what my colleagues around the web are advising you on the topic “marriage tips.” 1. Marriage Max http://www.marriagemax.com/tip.asp Mort Fertel is not a marriage counselor — and...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Feb 1, 2016 | Mental Health
Overcoming mental illness may be started best by no longer thinking of it as “mental illness.” Or “disease,” or a “sickness.” In the world of marriage and parenting, it’s important to think how you will deal with certain...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Jan 28, 2016 | Mental Health
A fellow therapist recommended Richard Carlson’s book, You Can Feel Good Again: Commonsense Strategies For Releasing Unhappiness and Changing Your Life. I had asked her because she is a sex therapist and a couple I was seeing had a particular sexual issue. They...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Jan 25, 2016 | Marriage and Relationships
Do you think anxiety gets in your way? Research finds that you are right. Anxiety — paradoxically — leads people to marry more readily than those without it, and (unfortunately) to divorce more readily, too, because of greater marital dissatisfaction....
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Jan 21, 2016 | Parenting
I was rereading a therapy magazine from 1999 — so the problems were full-blown even back then– and it related the following: In a difference of opinion between a child and her mother who wanted the TV shut off, as the mother’s demand became stronger,...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Jan 18, 2016 | Marriage and Relationships
Why is it that people insist on trying to win arguments by shooting themselves in the foot? Adam: “I did NOT say that I would go to your mother’s for dinner.” Sally: “Yes you did. And I don’t appreciate your letting me down.”...
