How Can Married Couples Reunite After a Separation
If married and committed couples live apart for a while, can they successfully get back together? With the right support, the answer is often yes. Many couples find they are able to regroup and [...]
Coping with Post-Wedding Depression
After the excitement and magic of your wedding is over, is it wrong to feel sad and disappointed – even depressed? According to marriage counselors, many couples expect to enter a state of bliss [...]
Help! The Kids Stole Our Sex Life
When you’re lying in bed after getting up to feed the baby or tuck your toddler back in for what seems like the hundredth time, you may wonder what happened to the sexual spark [...]
7 New Year’s Resolutions for Married and Committed Couples
The New Year is a great time to enjoy some bubbly, clean out closets and look forward to your next trip around the sun. For married and committed couples, it’s also a fine opportunity [...]
Giving Your Marriage Room to Breathe
Committed couples expect to receive many things from one another. But believing your marriage can satisfy the full spectrum of your personal needs – from intimacy to friendship to family and career support -- [...]
Truth, Lies and Our Relationships
With the current controversy over fake news, the issue of what’s true and untrue is very much on our minds these days. Many experts say we’re living in a world of diminishing trust – [...]
How Couples Can Avoid the Holiday Tug-of-War
For many married and committed couples, the decision of how to celebrate the winter holidays is a difficult one. Should we visit my family or yours? Stay home? Escape on an exciting vacation, avoiding [...]
Learning to Live with Past Mistakes in Your Relationship
All of us do and say things we regret later. If you’ve experienced this in your marriage, both of you may be struggling to reach a point of forgiveness. This is especially true if [...]
Marriage and the Fine Art of Shutting Up
When it comes to conflict in marriage, a lot of us don’t know when to hush up. It’s tough to resist throwing in that last comeback, that eye roll, that cruel retort— even though [...]
Is Someone You Love Dealing with Addiction?
Sometimes we use the word addiction to mean a craving for something we can’t resist, like new shoes or our favorite spiced latte. But at some level, we realize that addiction is something much [...]