Welcome to my Blog
Thank you for stopping by. This space is where I share research, reflections, and practical tools drawn from my experience as a marriage and family therapist.
Are you a couple looking for clarity? A professional curious about the science of relationships? Or simply someone interested in how love and resilience work? I’m glad you’ve found your way here. I can help with that.
Each post is written with one goal in mind: to help you better understand yourself, your partner, and the hidden dynamics that shape human connection.
Grab a coffee (or a notebook), explore what speaks to you, and take what’s useful back into your life and relationships. And if a post sparks a question, or makes you realize you could use more support, I’d love to hear from you.
Be Well, Stay Kind, and Godspeed.
~Daniel
P.S.
Feel free to explore the categories below to find past blog posts on the topics that matter most to you. If you’re curious about attachment, navigating conflict, or strengthening intimacy, these archives are a great way to dive deeper into the research and insights that I’ve been sharing for years.
- Attachment Issues
- Coronavirus
- Couples Therapy
- Extramarital Affairs
- Family Life and Parenting
- How to Fight Fair
- Inlaws and Extended Families
- Intercultural Relationships
- Marriage and Mental Health
- Married Life & Intimate Relationships
- Neurodiverse Couples
- Separation & Divorce
- Signs of Trouble
- Social Media and Relationships
- What Happy Couples Know
6 Ways your Strategic Family Therapist is thinking about you when you’re not looking…
Here are 6 ways a Strategic Family Therapist thinks about you when you show up.
What are they looking at and why?
New research from Hungary: confirms astrology?.. not quite…
New research from Hungary says that you will manifest different traits as an adult depending on the season of your birth…
The science of meaningful suffering: 3 resilient traits to handle failure and defeat
Setbacks and failure are common place in historically uncertain times. Here are 5 behaviors to avoid and 3 behaviors to learn if you want to manage disappointments, setbacks, and failure with resilience.
New research from Finland: Hug more and synchronize your brains…
Neuroscience enhances are understanding of human proxemics and intimacy.
New technology explains how humans synchronize their brains… with hugs.
Can your partner’s voice indicate their likelihood to cheat on you?
Evolutionary Psychology studies never fail to annoy.
It seems that men with lower voices, and women with higher voices engage in more infidelity?
A better question is why are these vocal registers so attractive?
A quick hack to predict whether the two of you will marry…
How accurately you remember this has been highly correlated with marriage by a respected relationship researcher… what is it?
What is relationship contingent self-esteem?
What happens when your entire identity and self-esteem is complete subsumed into how well your relationship is going?
What is relationship contingent self-esteem?
How dark emotions shape modern success…
New cross-cultural research suggests that more humans are harnessing ostensibly negative emotions such as anger and anxiety as fuel toward fulfilling their dreams.
How are they doing that?
Expectations in marriage…what does the science show?
Expectations in marriages has been a flashpoint among couples therapy thought leaders.
Which is better? High expectations? Or lower, more modest appreciation for the difficulties of marriage?
New research from Germany: 2 Personality traits in women that are correlated with long-term marital satisfaction
Research from Germany suggests that 2 specific personality traits in women are correlated with a high level of marital satisfaction. What are they?
Professional misconduct: a new indication that your partner is twice as likely to cheat…
For the first time, research correlates professional misconduct with a greater incidents of infidelity.
What is this research telling us about men behaving badly?
Why some unhappy partners prefer to suffer in silence…
Some humans are unlucky.
They never experienced a family of origin that confirmed their self-worth… Unfortunately, they refrain from complaining when they should…