Last year I did a blog using the following bar graph to explain that we need to be more patient with people who are not at their best including ourselves. Like when I’ve had a long day I can be grumpy or bad at listening (I hope the fact I’m not perfect doesn’t upset you) or like when my wife can … [Read more...]
Why I Love Open Relationships
**This post is based on a request Open relationships, where the couple is allowed to seek a sexual partner or partners outside of their marriage, are amazing... if you’re a therapist like me. It’s like bad parents; they give me hope for future employment. The truth is open relationships are … [Read more...]
It’s Always 50% Your Fault
In therapy I have found there are two main groups of people. There are the ‘it’s all my fault’ people who are brilliant at making everything that goes wrong somehow their fault. I once had someone apologize for the weather and admitted they felt responsible for it not being nicer out. This type … [Read more...]
10 Reasons the Amount of Sex Might be Lacking in Your Relationship
Recently, a common theme that has come up in my therapy practice (for some reason the issues I see tend to come in waves) is that some couples aren’t satisfied with the amount of sex they have in their relationship, or more accurately, one person in the relationship isn’t satisfied with the amount … [Read more...]
5 Tips to be More Creative (& raise creative children)
I keep hearing parents talk about not wanting to stunt their children’s creativity, and of course, they’re the same parents who give their kids tablets and cell phones to entertain them. As someone whose top three strengths include creativity, in this post I will be giving the five things that have … [Read more...]
How to Get Away with a Song like This
Happy Easter: Here’s a blog about birth and renewal. If you'd rather something more religious you can click here for one I wrote last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ohxvdaOgCo&feature=youtu.be A few weeks ago I posted this song on my personal wall, and the comments were largely … [Read more...]
Emotional Affairs: Why People Do Them
As a therapist, I love emotional affairs like a body shop loves car accidents; it keeps me in business. It’s a sucky way to exist, but I’m happy to give tips to prevent emotional affairs because I know no matter how many people I help not have one, there are plenty of other people who will do it … [Read more...]
Emotional Affairs… there’s a fun topic
The truth is it’s incredibly rare to find a grownup who has NOT had or tried to have some type of emotional affair at some point in their lives unless they’re a basement troll. For instance, as a teen many of us had a “friend” of the opposite sex who was dating someone else that we tried to get … [Read more...]
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