As a therapist and officiant I meet a lot of couples, and the most common question I ask is: “How did you two meet?” From my sample of couples, about half meet online and the other half meet through friends. Thus, if you want to find someone to date, these are the two areas on which you should be … [Read more...]
Treat Your Partner Better than Your Cat
Do you treat your partner better than your cat? Some of you are thinking... it’s a cat; who doesn’t treat their partner better? Um, almost everyone, and I don’t just mean the weird ones who have a quorum of felines and smell like cat urine. Not to be rude, but that’s a bad life choice; cat urine … [Read more...]
Why You Should Stop Apologizing
Apologizing is good, and this article isn’t to say we should never apologize because sometimes people just need to hear an ‘I’m sorry’... ladies. Sorry, that just slipped out. See how apologizing can have its place? And yes, I put that line in there to prove a point... and that point is a lot of … [Read more...]
How to Start a Sensitive Conversation
Do you enjoy being yelled at? People talking for long rants without much of a point? Do you like someone hurling insults at you because you just enjoy hearing their voice? Great, you’re all set. All you need to do is say something mean, and then sit back and enjoy the person screaming at you. … [Read more...]
Fun Questions to Ask Your Spouse
This week I had a couple seeing me as a therapist state a very common problem for those in long term relationships: “We’ve been together for so long, we don’t know what to talk about. We already know everything about each other, or at least don’t know what new things we can discuss.” I’m a … [Read more...]
The Perfect Fight
After 11 years together, my wife and I finally had the perfect fight. My apologies if you are hoping for a description of a fight with brilliant Hollywood witticisms being tossed back and forth while clothes are chucked out the window with Michael Jackson’s Heal the World being sung in the … [Read more...]
How to make a point & not start a fight
The other week a contractor friend was at my house doing some work with me. He had promised to come do some work on his day off because I had helped him earlier in the week on my day off. Unfortunately, when he arrived he was not his normal friendly self because his wife was angry with him – not a … [Read more...]
You Might Suck at Communicating & Not Know It
A lot of people think they’re good at communicating (aka women), but the truth is they’re terrible (if I end up dead tomorrow you can assume a woman did it, so that cuts down the suspect list to about half the population). As this opening line points out, I’m pretty terrible at communicating. I … [Read more...]
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