“…Your boundaries are both necessary for you and helpful for them. If you have been enabling them to be irresponsible, your limit setting may nudge them toward responsibility.” Henry Cloud My client, B., had created a codependent relationship with her husband....
“People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws?” Elizabeth...
“Love is a painful, poignant, touching attempt by two flawed individuals to try and meet each other’s needs – with gross uncertainty and ignorance about who they are and who the other person is. But we’ll do our best.” Alain de Botton If there was a magic pill...
“If you don’t feel, you don’t hurt. But if you don’t feel, you don’t experience love either.” London Angel Winters Over the course of a 30 year marriage, we can hurt one another and my client Ruth’s marriage is no different. She felt: Abandoned when he would always...
“Staying in a situation where you’re unappreciated isn’t called loyalty; it’s called breaking your own heart.” Trent Shelton This beautiful 62 year old woman sat with me and told me about a time when she and her husband went to a family wedding together years ago....
“Changing is Hard. Resisting Change, a lot Harder.” Eleanor Brownn My client Kathleen and her husband have been married for 22 years and they have two kids together: one is in college and the other is a junior in high school. They have had a business together for the...
