Couples seek therapy for a variety of reasons: they’re fighting too much, not having sex enough, or there’s been an affair. Yet the most common reason couples come to therapy, what we call the “presenting issue,” is to save their marriage. A Google search of “how to...
Psychologists Drs. John and Julie Gottman of The Gottman Institute separate couples into two major groups: the “masters” and the “disasters.” Masters remain happily together, while disasters either break up or are chronically unhappy. In Masters of Love, couples share...
Scan the cover of any tabloid magazine while waiting in line at the grocery store and you’ll probably see advice for how to be better at foreplay or how to make your partner orgasm, but you probably won’t see anything about what comes after sex—a period psychologists...
I’ve been a promise keeper for most of my life, only breaking promises when left with no other choice – when a murmur in my heart began pounding so loud that it overruled me. There was the relationship that lacked kindness and mutuality – the friendship laced in...
Nurturing an Intimacy Born of Shared Experience According to a study conducted by AMA Insurance Agency, nearly 40 percent of doctors marry other doctors or other healthcare professionals. What is the reasoning for this natural romantic attachment? Could it reflect...
Rethinking the Heteronormative Lens on Matrimony We've all heard the cliche "Men are from Mars and women are from Venus." Stereotypes like this not only take a cisnormative view of the world they also suggest that high divorce rates are caused by...
