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 2 most toxic aspect of ADD that you never hear about…
We all are familiar with the downside of adult ADD.
However there are 2 highly problematic ways that ADD corrodes marriages that are often overlooked.
What are they?
Will AI lifestyle trainers render therapists obsolete?
Will the helping profession become fully automated?
Not likely, but we have to admire what AI can do well, with both humility and pride. How do we accommodate an alien intelligence?
The problem with a bad news sandwich…
Industrial psychologists have been offering the sad cuisine of a “bad news sandwich.”
Why is that a problem?
The #1 preventable risk for early onset dementia…
Early onset dementia occurs before the age of 65.
Alcohol is recognized as the greatest single risk factor in early onset dementia.
A tale of two Joes…
It was summer of 1966. I was at Camp Don Orione in New Bedford Massachusetts.
That’s where I met Joe, a wiry, diminutive Puerto Rican seminary student from the NYC. He once warned me, with tears in his eyes, that “Satan has the world by the tail”
That summer I also met a tall, animated seminary exchange student from Milan. His name was also Joe.. Joe DeAngelo… he would prove the other Joe to be correct…
Are personality traits more important than ever in intimate relationships? … probably not…
A group of economists decided to cross over into social science research with an amusing outcome…
3 Personality traits tightly correlated with cheating…
Because infidelity is so widespread in American culture, it is studied extremely carefully.
Here are 3 personality traits tightly correlated with infidelity…
Don’t be angry with me…male irritability and the testosterone trap…
Male irritability is correlated with a drop in Testosterone.
But a boost in T levels from TRT can boost mood and provide a sense of well-being.
Is TRT right for you?
What do different kinds of love feel like? In the body… as a physical sensation?
Fascinating new research maps how different kinds of love are felt in the body.
I love the fact that this researcher, for the past 15 years, has been making the deep investigation into human love his life’s work…
Even though you know better, you’ll probably choose your phone over another human…
Although people enjoy social interactions with other humans more, they still wind up using their phones to relieve boredom, according to a new study …
Conversations provide a strong boost to positive emotions, but people prefer to text or watch videos on their phones to pass the time, although they are less fun.
Nurturing the Spiritual Child: A family therapist's perspective on "The Spiritual Child" by Lisa Miller, Ph.D.
The world we live in may require us to become spiritual beings having a human experience., if we’re gonna make it as a species.
When is the last time you thought about your child’s spiritual development?
The argument for Pronatalism…
We need to make babies. The pronatalists warn that we need a cultural shift which re-establishes the importance of children in moving forward with an ever-advancing civilization…