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 secret of sacrifice and relationship satisfaction…
Humans who cave, capitulate, and only make a sacrifice because they feel pressured into it, will not only be potentially resentful, but, according to this study, they will also enjoy far less relational satisfaction.
However…humans who make sacrifices in their relationship because they want to… are the partners with the most enduring relationship satisfaction, period.
2 quick questions to dirty-diagnose an anxiety disorder…
The ultra-brief hack can help identify an anxiety problem quickly.
Almost 20%. of humans who visit their doctor have an anxiety disorder, research finds.
And just 2 questions are often enough to suggest there is a problem that needs to be addressed…
How much solitude is too much?
The relationship between being alone and feeling lonely is quite complicated.
This study emphasizes that your mileage may definitely vary. Solitude does not reliably provoke loneliness.
Let’s dish on Avoidant Attachment…
Adults with an Avoidant Attachment Style fear rejection… and attempt to deactivate the attachment system by limiting closeness.
Avoidant humans experience an ongoing struggle between deep attachment needs… and deep attachment defenses…
So you’re a pessimist …How smart is that?
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. —Ayn Rand
What common supplement reduces symptoms of ADHD?
Research suggest that fish oil supplements are at least as effective for attention as conventional pharmacological treatments among those children with ADHD who have omega-3 deficiency….
Wow…
Can coffee help you with your ADHD?
Caffeine improves executive functioning cognitive procedures.
It can also increase capacity, and flexibility, in both human spatial attention and selective attention, as well as in the working memory, and short-term memory.
Is coffee is a think drink?
How prevalent is Adult ADHD ?
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, also known as ADHD or ADD, can interfere with humans successfully completing the most mundane of daily routines, like charging their cell phone, or paying bills.
It may even cause some humans to rack up a piss-poor resume, as persistent lateness, inattention to vital deadlines, or failing to perform ordinary tasks, result in enthusiastic terminations.
How a simple mental shift can improve your memory… your marriage… and your parenting…
The likely reason why this fairly simple trick works is that it tends to automatically activate more successful learning strategies, the kind routinely used by… teachers.
3 Signs of a high IQ, that we should heed in 2024…
People might naturally presume that people who are nice, conscientious and generous are automatically more cooperative.
But, through recent research, we find overwhelming support for the idea that intelligence is the primary condition for a socially cohesive, cooperative society…
Neuroticism and Depression
The personality trait of neuroticism – perhaps better understood as “negative emotionality” is a major risk factor of major depression.
This study explains that this occurs because levels of neuroticism are, for the most part, an index of their genetic susceptibility of a client to to clinical depression.
What happens with parenthood, anyway?
Most couples remain committed to each other and satisfied with their relationships after having children, a study finds.
While the transition to parenthood is filled with internal and external stressors, like lack of sleep and endless chores, however, the majority of couples get through these stressors with their connection to each other intact.