Generalized Anxiety disorder is pretty widespread these days…How do you manage it in a marriage?

Maintaining healthy boundaries with in-laws is essential for fostering positive relationships and preserving harmony within families.

As family dynamics evolve, navigating these boundaries can be challenging but crucial for individual well-being and familial cohesion.

Drawing insights from family therapy experts, we explore the best practices for establishing and maintaining boundaries with in-laws…

Fair Fighting in marriage is an essential skill.

In this post, I will explain 8 essential guidelines for approaching marital arguments.

Here are the most essential guidelines for effectively managing marital conflict…

Contempt is, in the words of the 19th-century philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, “the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.”

It is the most corrosive and destructive behavior in intimate relationships…

Science-based couples therapists are convinced that America doesn’t have to have such a high second marriage failure rate.

This research explains why…

We know that tone of voice is a vital aspect of communication. However, research suggests that elements such as timbre, volume, pitch, and inflection also play a major role.

A fascinating new study analyzed hundreds of conversations recorded during marriage therapy sessions.

Here’s what we learned…

Dysthymic Disorder is a relatively new way to understand a particular type of depressive behavior.

There are 7 million Americans for whom the sun will not come up tomorrow. They will not bet their bottom dollar.

They can see no upside. No light at the end of the tunnel.

These people live in a depressive fog and possess little resilience. They suffer from a treatable but often ignored medical condition called Dysthymic Disorder…

When I was the Director of Development at a huge couples therapy practice, I made sure that all of our Intensive retreat clients had excellent aftercare and follow up… and that started with this important blog post…

The Narcissistic Wife, because of her attendant grandiosity, lacks empathy.

One of the great pains of having a Narcissistic Wife is that she will constantly step on your feelings.

Sometimes it will be intentional, and sometimes you will just be collateral damage as she seeks to prop up her fragile self-esteem…

The immediacy of chatting and messaging has an accelerating effect on the brain.

While dates in the real world are constrained by time and space, texting with attractive others revs up this felt sense of emotional connection because of the dopamine cascade in the brain.

There is a new, special lifestyle for older couples who can afford it… it’s called living apart… together. In this post, I’ll be describing the research, but in an upcoming post, I’ll discuss whether or not this lifestyle may help neurodiverse couples as well…

Gaslighting is a manipulative tactic used to make someone doubt their own thoughts, feelings, and perceptions.

Gaslighting is often a red flag for toxic narcissism…

It involves subtly distorting or outright denying reality, leading the victim to question their sanity or perception of events.