My assistant is an avid Black Friday shopper. After eating a turkey dinner with her family, she naps (I would blame tryptophan, but it’s really pre-game prep for her long night ahead), and then meets up with four of her closest mom-friends for 18 hours of shop til...
It’s been said that in a healthy marriage your spouse should be your safety net and the one place (other than God) you should be 100% transparent. While there shouldn’t be any walls within marriage, there are a number of walls you can build AROUND your marriage:...
Oxygen cannot be seen or smelt; yet, it’s vital to life. I happen to know this first hand from my days serving aboard a nuclear submarine. During that time, one of my jobs was to generate oxygen for the crew in order to keep them all alive. It was a rather complex...
I recently logged into my website to post an article, and I was met with familiar notifications. Three plug-in updates, one theme to update, and a new version of WordPress to install. I’m pretty certain there’s a new update to run for every time I change my clothes!...
Pre-marital counselors are often the first to get a behind-the-scenes view into the way fiancés interact. After all, seeking an outside perspective is the reason couples seek these types of consultations, even if they’re very sure they are right for each other. A...
There’s been a lot of buzz in psychological studies lately in regards to love. Psychologist Arthur Aron researched how asking and answering certain questions can actually cause people to fall in love. In fact, Aron has compiled a 36-question list, broken down into 4...
How that Negative Voice in Your Head Gets Louder: And How to Stop It Have you ever run into a Negative Nellie, someone you wish would just let up a little bit? Have you ever tried to cheer Nellie up, only to find that her constant negativity won’t budge? You might...
Is your relationship doomed to fail? Does your marriage have an expiration date stamped on it? Aside from one of you expiring, of course. I recently read an article at PsychologyToday.com regarding the divorce of Al and Tipper Gore. Author Susan Pease Gadoua posed a...
Most couples entering into counseling have a unified agenda and agree on wanting to keep the relationship together. Unfortunately, some couples can enter into counseling with mixed agendas, meaning that one person wants to try counseling while the other one doesn’t....
Years ago I heard this poem entitled, “The things You Didn’t Do!” It reminds us we shouldn’t wait to tell those around us how much they mean to us. The time to give the complement is...
