by Sharon Pope | Last updated: Dec 14, 2021 | Truth
“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them.” -Paulo Coelho Stacy’s affair of three years just ended. She’s heartbroken. She had been holding out hope that one day, they could be together....
by Sharon Pope | Last updated: Jan 26, 2022 | Truth
We cannot take on another’s journey any more than another can die our death for us. – James Hollis Jackie is afraid to tell her husband the truth. She’s afraid that if he knew how disconnected she felt from him and how she was considering leaving the marriage it...
by Sharon Pope | Last updated: Oct 19, 2020 | Truth
“Care about people’s approval, and you will always be their prisoner.” -Lao Tzu My client’s kids are grown, off building their own families, own careers, and own lives. She and her husband had made a decision that her oldest daughter didn’t...
by Sharon Pope | Last updated: May 9, 2023 | Truth
“A long but unhappy marriage is not a successful marriage.” -Dr. Anne Brown So many people believe that a successful marriage is the one that lasts forever… …the one that lives up to the vow, “‘till death do us part.” So we often hold ourselves to that...
by Sharon Pope | Last updated: Aug 3, 2020 | Truth
“From a psychological perspective, our relationship to the forbidden sheds a light on the darker, and less straightforward aspects of our humanity.” Esther Perel My client, Mary, told me, “My affair made me feel alive.” Because she had been feeling numb, lonely and...
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...
