Why Divorce Is Worse Than The Alternative
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...
Good Marriages Require Real Emotions
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Why Bad Things Happen To Good People – Another Thought
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 difficult and...
What’s Love?
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...
How To Make Affirmations Real
5 Sets of Marriage Tips from Around The Web
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 he's proud of it. He...
Overcoming “Mental Illness”
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 problems. If your spouse or child seems to...
Book Review: You Can Feel Good Again (For Depression)
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 did...
How Anxiety Affects Marriage
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. What's more,...
What To Do With Your Child’s Anger
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, the child...