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Create a Relationship You Love

By Jerry / January 28, 2018 / Comments Off on Create a Relationship You Love

Welcome. We’re excited you are here. Make yourself at home. roam around, and gather some helpful information. We launched our blog to begin a conversation about relationships in the 21st Century. We want to build a community of people who want to be crazy in love with their relationship. We hope that together we can…

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How to Deal with Step-Children

By Jerry / January 8, 2018 / Comments Off on How to Deal with Step-Children

A therapist offers a stepmother advice in dealing with her stepson a troubled teen-aged boy. It’s not what you think.

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Should you talk about your ex with your new partner?

By Jerry / January 8, 2018 / Comments Off on Should you talk about your ex with your new partner?

It is human nature to want to share our experiences with the one we love. In our intensive couples therapy retreats, we teach that a person’s desire to be “known” by their partner is a foundation of healthy intimacy. It is also human nature to be curious about your partner’s relationship past —a key to learn…

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Do Your In-Laws Make You Crazy?

By Jerry / January 7, 2018 / Comments Off on Do Your In-Laws Make You Crazy?

In the thrall of new love’s glow you may have minimized your partner’s expectation for you to have a congenial relationship with your in-laws. In fact, you may not have fully understood that a relationship forms an alliance between two families― each of which has its own cast of quirky, idiosyncratic characters.

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Infidelity: Can a Marriage Survive An Affair?

By Jerry / January 5, 2018 / Comments Off on Infidelity: Can a Marriage Survive An Affair?

I was reading an article last night by a fellow psychologist on the subject of infidelity. The author is frequently seen on television and the covers of magazines dispensing his golden nuggets of wisdom.  His recommendation to someone who’s discovered his or her partner has cheated on them and is wondering “Can a marriage survive…

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My Partner Says I Need To Tell Her Every Little thing

By Mary Ellen Goggin / October 29, 2017 / Comments Off on My Partner Says I Need To Tell Her Every Little thing

What is your advice? Every night when Julie gets home from the office, Dan questions her about her day. He expects to hear about the morning commute, project meeting, lunch, phone calls and e-mails with friends. Julie has no interest in reliving her day and usually wants to cuddle and watch a funny show or…

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How to Fix Your Unhappy Marriage Relationship After Infatuation Fades

By Jerry / March 18, 2017 / Comments Off on How to Fix Your Unhappy Marriage Relationship After Infatuation Fades

Married friends often commonly complain about the loss of sizzle and ensuing staleness and boredom that creeps into their marriage relationship. They are afraid they can’t fix their unhappy marriage relationship after the infatuation ends. Couples reminisce about how they felt when they fell in love, describing fireworks, shaking earth, clammy hands, flushed cheeks, unbearable…

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Marriage Retreat: Tune-up for a smooth ride

By Mary Ellen Goggin / July 18, 2016 / Comments Off on Marriage Retreat: Tune-up for a smooth ride

 At a dinner party the other night, an attractive 40-something woman asked me what I do.  I told her that I work with couples who want more satisfying relationships. “You mean you’re a therapist? I don’t believe in therapy. What’s the point?” she scoffed. “My husband and I were married 20 years ago. We’ve never…

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