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
The truth about home buying happiness…
Humans tend to distort how happy they will be when they buy a new home.
What is the relationship between internal and external motivation that tells us when we have “enough”?
The single best personality trait for a 40+ year marriage…
Emotional stability is the bedrock of a successful marriage. Humans high in neuroticism tend to fail at married life.. why?
When Sh*t happens… can it change your personality?
It’s an enduring cultural myth that our personalities do not change. new research suggests otherwise.
What are the life experiences that drive us to change our personality?
Do you have the sleep pattern linked with chronic negativity?
Researchers have correlated a very specific sleep pattern with a more intense battle with intrusive negative thoughts…
The toxic legacy of parental favoritism…
What happens when daddy prefers Steve his first born, over his kid sister Carol ?
Breaking research suggests it’s a lifelong sh*t show…
Can hugs protect you from the flu?
The lengths to which some researchers will go…
… and the things folks will do for $1000,… and for science, of course!
7 Manifest signs of “Relationship Dissatisfaction”
Relationship satisfaction is a topic of endless fascination for couples therapy research.
Here are 7 signs your relationship satisfaction is slipping…
3 Specific things to focus on when your child goes to school that will optimize their future reasoning skills…
Do you want to give your children a heads up in this crazy world?
New research from Finland says to focus on these 3 things, starting when they enter school.
The most vital insight into gender differences between long-term life partners? …Or just Boomers being Boomers?
Research from 2016 looked at old married couples and tried to extract some conclusions about old married couples… I just think they just saw Boomers…
An economic link between marriage and depression…
There is an economic link between marriage and depression… the researchers believe it’s related to the “pooling of resources”.. but I think otherwise…
What objects in your home say about your relationship…
Did you know that objects in your home, and how you interact with them, can be an intimate window into your relationship?
If you have a genetic tendency toward depression, you’ll respond to social support faster than most…
Many humans endure a genetic predisposition toward depression. Breaking research suggests that it is these humans in particular who benefit from abiding social support…