My dad was a strong disciplinarian with his kids and I... well, I suck. When I was a kid, you didn’t mess with my dad. Me?... whatever; I’ll take it. With my dad you knew your place – you were a child and he was the adult. He had three kids who were continually praised for being very well … [Read more...]
3 Fascinating Studies about Men & Women
As a marriage therapist I often get asked if there are any good books I can recommend. I like to recommend The Devil in the White City. It’s clearly a strange title, so when they ask what it’s about, I tell them it’s the true account of the first documented case of a psychopathic murderer. They … [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...]
Why You Want Your Man to Have a Dad-Bod
There are five main red flags I like to give women if they’re married and wonder if they have a potentially bigger issue with their partner going on that needs to be addressed, which are the same five red flags I give a woman interested in dating a guy. (If you want the answer to the title, you can … [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...]
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