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...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Apr 19, 2019 | Marriage and Relationships
There’s lots of reasons why a couple could be unhappy. Do you notice that the same stuff repeats itself over and over? There’s a reason for that. It’s not because people are “insane” – meaning they keep doing the same thing...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Apr 16, 2019 | Marriage and Relationships
You know the story of the guy who was abusive, had a temper, was controlling and demanding, got divorced because of all that and managed to keep it together long enough for a new girl to fall in love with him; and of course she never saw a hint of all the rotten...