by Sharon Pope | Last updated: Mar 20, 2023 | How to Fix My Marriage
A few days ago, I posted a quote from Frida Kahlo (a world-renowned self-portrait painter, with multiple disabilities in the early 1900s and a role model for generations of artists) to her husband Diego. “I’m not asking you to kiss me, nor apologize to me...
by Sharon Pope | Last updated: Oct 13, 2022 | How to Fix My Marriage
“Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.” Tennessee Williams There was a time when I was in my first marriage when I gave up on something...
by Sharon Pope | Last updated: Jun 29, 2020 | Truth
“If you cannot live without your marriage, you cannot navigate within it.” Harriet Lerner, PhD My client is a full-time nurse and her husband is an executive who is both over-working and over-drinking. She suspects it’s his way of avoiding the difficulties inside the...
by Sharon Pope | Last updated: Oct 13, 2022 | How to Fix My Marriage
“In relationships between dominant and subordinate groups, the subordinate group members always possess a far greater understanding of dominant group members and their culture than vice versa.” –Harriet Lerner, PhD, The Dance of Intimacy I received an email that...
by Sharon Pope | Nov 19, 2019 | Moving On From My Marriage
“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” Robert Holden It was early Saturday morning. He had brought her coffee since she was still in bed. He lied down next to her and starting pawing at her. Over the least two...
