9 Steps to a Happy Marriage
Relationships tend to be the most balanced when the foundation is strong. If you can get the basics down, you’re much more likely to have a long-lasting and happy [read more]
Coming to Grips with Marriage: “This is It??”
Many individuals and couples come into therapy with a similar relationship complaint: being married isn’t what they expected. More specifically, the reality of marriage is not aligned with their [read more]
Movies versus Your Relationships
Over the years, there’s become increasing awareness about how movies impact the expectations people have for their relationships. While our real life experiences as children set the stage psychologically [read more]
The Relationship Dream List
Is your relationship feeling stagnant recently? Do you feel like you’re caught in a routine, ignoring each other, too busy to give time to your relationship, or just simply [read more]
7 Ways to Improve your Sex Life
Sex in relationships is not always easy to maintain. Many things get in the way, from creating time for intimacy, to our own emotional issues that block intimacy, to [read more]
Can a Relationship Survive an Affair?
It depends. People respond to a partner’s affair in different ways, depending on personal values. Some may respond by immediately leaving the relationship without looking back. Some may believe [read more]
Relationships: The Mood Alert
When we take a moment to notice how we manage our day-to-day, moment-to-moment moods within our relationships, it’s interesting to see that the first communication of a bad mood [read more]
6 Signs Your Marriage May Be in Trouble
In order to make improvements in our relationships, it’s necessary to figure out what’s not working well… and in order to figure out what’s not working well, we first [read more]
Relationship Technique: The Argument Contest
What’s an argument contest? If I were to give a more appropriate name to this relationship technique, it would be the ‘Who Can Stop an Argument the Fastest?’ contest. [read more]
Relationships “Should” Be…Unique
It is common in therapy for people to mention that their significant other “should” be a certain way, or “should” be doing things differently. For example, “My husband should [read more]