Are you feeling distant from your spouse? Relationship expert, Dr. Sue Johnson, recently joined me on Mondays with Marlo to give advice on how to reco...
Every marriage has to have a good guy and a bad guy in it for the couple to survive in the real world. You can't both be the Cleavers or you'll get eaten alive out there.
The fact that Meryl Streep's new movie "Hope Springs" opened and Helen Gurley Brown died in the same week seems to me a passing of a very important baton. The baton our Post50 generation needs to get us moving toward an honest and candid discussion about sex.
"[For some couples] sex can become unimportant or they think that sex is optional. But it’s the language of connection for men and often for women.”
Would Christian Grey ever settle down, change diapers, take out the garbage on Thursday nights or agree to a birthday colonoscopy?
by guest bloggers Harville Hendrix, PhD, and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD, relationship therapists and authors Hurtful words in a relationship can be lik...
While it's safe to assume your wife knows where your sunglasses are (on your head), it's also safe to assume that the best way to know the answer to any question is to find out yourself.
I spoke with a few other women who were somewhat panicked that their kids were going to be gone. It wasn't worry for the kids. Rather, it was worry for themselves. What were they going to do alone with just each other for two weeks?
I have the uncanny ability to know whether or not someone is going to get divorced. And roughly how long it will take for the shit to hit the fan. That's right. I'm the marriage whisperer.
There are things you can do to ensure a healthy relationship, even through differences and difficulties. These are my tried-and-tested tips that have helped countless couples in my practice become fearlessly married.
So let's rework the stories. Or, better yet, write our own. One with regular people doing everyday and extraordinary things. No tiaras, castles or princes needed.
When our need for attachment and connection is repeatedly neglected, ignored or dismissed, it results in two potential raw spots: feeling emotionally deprived or deserted/abandoned.
My husband and I have been married 14 years, have three children, each one in school, and are so overwhelmed. Between shuttling the kids around and homework, I feel like my marriage is nonexistent.
Read these tips and take notes -- or else suffer the consequences of doing too many things at once.
Marriages can be jumpstarted, the sacred union between a husband and a wife can receive new life and power. I don't care who you are, who you've been, or what your marriage has been through--everything can be made new.
by guest blogger Harville Hendrix, PhD, clinical pastoral counselor, educator, public lecturer, author, and couples' therapist It's hard to sustain l...
Getting married is easy. Staying married is a lot of work. Staying happily married is a combination of a lot of work, dumb luck, true love and surrender.
Remember, a wedding is not a marriage, but a wonderful celebration that marks the beginning of your life together.
I had pretty much known all along that my fiancé and I were not right for each other -- and I chose to stay with him anyway.
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In my experience as a couples therapist, dividing chores fairly isn't the secret to a successful marriage. Fighting fairly is.
Our attraction to a mate is based on many things, not the least of which is the almost innate ability to find someone who drives you crazy.
Whether you implement curiosity expressly, or do so without mentioning it to your spouse, you will quickly find that the care, attention and interest you display toward him or her will naturally be returned to you.
There are some common threads I hear about why my married clients come to me, and I have a pretty good success record in helping couples figure out how to talk to each other about one of the scariest subjects there is: sex and intimacy.
A client of mine recently told me that she's not having a wedding party because she doesn't want to have to look at pictures of people she can't stand in her wedding photos 25 years from now. She's not kidding. And she's not wrong.
