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
Is there a “best way” to handle money in a committed relationship?…. Yes, despite what you may have read elsewhere...
Blended or separate? Is there a best way to manage our family’s money to optimize marital satisfaction? …Yes.
2 Wicked powerful questions to lift your relationship satisfaction…
Here are 2 wicked powerful questions that will build your relationship satisfaction if you use them with skill…
Is there a perfect age to wed?…apparently, there is….
Is there an age range for your first marriage that is correlated with the highest possible success rate?
Yup.
New study from Denmark: Men suffer more health consequences from separation & divorce…
A new study from Denmark describes how men experience declining health when they separate from their partner and opt to live alone.
Why do women fair so much better living alone than men?
How depression and anxiety are crushing 3 specific sexual minorities…a breaking study from Great Britain
Why are we OK with the fact that some sexual minorities have double the suicide rate of straight humans?
What is the ideal age gap for relationship satisfaction?
New research describes the ideal age gap between marital partners, and what often happens in 6-10 years when this ideal aspect ratio is unheeded….
Epic elder wisdom from 40,000 years of married life…
40,000 years of happily married life has been distilled like maple syrup into 5 sweet truths about enduring love and intimacy…what are they?
The 1 teen trait that bodes well for future relationship satisfaction…
Teens who maintain a successful cohort of abiding friendships in their teen years report mort relationship satisfaction in their 30’s … Why?
The problem with depression…
There’s a new sheriff in town in public mental health…AI.
AI wants us to know we’re dealing with twice the rate of Major Depressive Episodes than we previously thought…
Just sayin’. … WTF?
How being empathetic to 3 specific emotions can help your partner to change…
Sometimes the hardest discussion to have with a spouse is when you seek to influence them to make a lifestyle change.
What 3 emotions must you manage with skill?
How just 1 bad night of poor sleep can impact your relationship…
Sleep deprivation is being identified as a persistent source of relational stress. This research suggests that relational stressors emerge after only a single night of disturbed sleep.
Here’s what you need to know…
Why does a hot and heavy start to a relationship tend toward eventual disappointment, and divorce?
It a curious truth, that the couples who are ardently touchy-feely in the early stage of their relationships tend to experience profound disappointment over time… why?