The other day I made a new communication tool! Yes, I’m way more excited than a normal person should be, but being a therapist as long as I have, it’s rare to come up with anything new; it was quite refreshing. This new tool isn’t going to revolutionize anything, but it made the couple I was … [Read more...]
A Right vs. a Privilege
When I was in my teens there seemed to be a few young people who were super hard workers and/or super hard on themselves and a few very lazy and entitled people my while most of us were more in the middle between the two extremes. The current younger generations seems to be the opposite with a very … [Read more...]
Avoiding Those Petty Fights
Marriages are rarely broken by a major issue. In fact, more people recover from affairs and hidden debt scandals than you’d expect (there are also more hidden debt scandals than you’d expect where one person builds thousands of dollars of debt behind their partner’s back). Instead, what kills most … [Read more...]
Playing the Victim vs. Playing the Martyr
This past week I realized there’s a difference between playing the victim and playing the martyr, which is a rather important distinction to know. Both behaviors are unhealthy, but one is sinister while the other is more self-deprecating. Playing the victim is when you spin things to be all … [Read more...]
The 2 Kinds of Depression & 2 Ways to Handle It
From my experience as a therapist, there are two kinds of depression: I’m really nice to others, but I’m really hard on myself I’m a helpless victim (aka “The world is against me,” “This is all my parents’ fault,” “The world owes me,” and “Life is hard, so I’m hard on others.”) Note: People in … [Read more...]
12 Things that Make Someone a Jerk
Because I have been on the receiving end of some very unfair assumptions and accusations, I find my heart often goes to the accused. It wants to assume these people have good hearts and they acted in a way that was misinterpreted or they simply had a bad moment. I don’t like to assume people are … [Read more...]
Mother-in-Laws…
My mother-in-law is one of my wife’s best features. If you think that’s rude, I’ll also add that one of my own best features is my mom. Both my wife and I scored with incredible mother-in-laws, which is pretty rare, but absolutely amazing. Life is so much better when the couple enjoys each … [Read more...]
Babies are the Worst!
Babies suck. Yes, I wrote that. If you’re thinking, “Don’t you have a new born?” You’d be correct. And that’s why this topic has come up. I’m not just a jerk claiming babies suck because I want someone to hate. If hating someone was what I wanted (I’m not sure why I would), I have me, and I got … [Read more...]
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