“This is how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.” Amy Tan One of my clients had recently learned of her husband engaging in emotional infidelity with a woman he worked alongside each day. She had been able to move past it by telling...
“If someone is arguing with you, you are saying something arguable.” Julia B. Colwell, PhD One of the things I help my private clients do is identify the patterns of engagement with their spouses, specifically how they argue or disagree with one another. It...
“The urge to blame is based…on the fear of being blamed.” Douglas Stone In our marriages, it seems the conversation we avoid the most are the very ones we most need to be having with our partners. There’s a lot going either unsaid between or unheard. Maybe we tried...
When my client, who I’ll refer to as Vicky began working with me, she was trying to determine if there was any hope for her marriage that had been on the ropes for years. They were separated and ready to file papers, but she was still holding on and wasn’t sure...
“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” Roy T. Bennett Fixing our relationship just seems so hard… Maybe it would just be easier to find someone who has the qualities I want in an intimate relationship… It’s probably not going to work. Why bother...
