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
2 Common relationship patterns that absolutely suck…
There are 2 relationship patterns that are both incredibly prevalent, and indescribably toxic.
What are they?
What is male confession bias? Paradise by the Dashboard light?…or I’m Confessin’ that I love you?
Researchers believe that it’s a universal truth that men say “I love you” first in a romantic relationship.
But the study only looked at Western countries. How can they claim this tendency is universal?
Do satisfied couples have synchronized brains?
Recent research tells us that happy couples have synchronized brains… Do these brains groove easily because they’re a “good match?”
Or is this synchronization hard won, occurring gradually over time?
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?