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 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 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 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 | 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....
