Men’s Issues Articles
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- 5 Tips to Increase Your Assertiveness
“Assertiveness is all about being present in a relationship,” according to Randy Paterson, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist and author ...
- Valentine’s Day & Parental LOVE
Did you know that about 40 percent of the 180 million Valentine's cards purchased this year will be bought by parents? ...
- 3 Relationship Pitfalls When Entering Parenthood & Pointers to Help
Couples are often surprised just how much a baby changes their relationship and their lives. In fact, ...
- 3 Steps to a Closer, Stronger Family
“I wish my kids and I were closer.”
One of the letters I received recently on Psych Central's Ask ...
- Finding Authenticity in Your Man
The closer I get to the males in my life, both friends and family, I find that my understanding of what I ...
- The Mid-Life Crisis: An Opportunity in Disguise?
In the movie City Slickers the character played by Billy Crystal hits his 39th birthday and finds himself in a ...
- Competing Family Loyalties in the Holiday Season
The holidays are ripe for unearthing family dramas, often featuring a popular story line about competing loyalties. Though there are ...
- 7 Tips for Long-Distance Couples
“Whether you just met someone in a different city or your partner moved out of town for another job, long-distance relationships ...
- How Couples Can Help Each Other De-stress and Improve Their Relationship
“Stress impacts our love relationships more than we are aware of or acknowledge,” according to Judy ...
- Emotionally Focused Therapy: Bolstering Couples’ Emotional Bonds
Western culture views independence as a virtue. We’ve been taught that a truly strong person doesn’t need anybody to survive ...
- What To Do About Attention-Seeking Kids
The preschooler I observed in the grocery store yesterday was doing everything she could to get her mom’s attention. She whined. ...
- October is Domestic Violence Month
Domestic violence remains a huge and largely hidden problem. The purple ribbons you may have seen recently on car bumpers and people’s ...
- The Essential Guide to Overcoming Obsessive Love
Have you ever found yourself calling your partner repeatedly even though they have asked you to stop? Does your partner sulk, pout and pick a fight whenever you want to meet up with friends for ...
- Right Here with You
What do religious books about relationships usually say? “Give it time; God has someone for everyone.” Right Here with You: Bringing Mindful Awareness into Our Relationships is different. It’s a Buddhist—rather than Christian—book. In it, ...
- What it Means To Be in Love
Such a broad and abstract topic as love, not surprisingly, is hard to define. And, of course, many writers, artists, ...
- I Love You. Now Change.
She married him because he was hardworking. She was considering divorce because he turned out to be a workaholic who was barely ...
- Finally Out: Letting Go of Living Straight
By all external indicators, Dr. Loren Olson was a success in life as a devoted husband and father who was making strides in his career as a psychiatrist. At age 40, he was a mature ...
- When Conversations Go Wrong: The Anatomy of Disconnection in Relationships
Ever feel like your conversations with your partner get lost in translation? Or that a seemingly ...
- Tiger Mother: Son of a Bitch
It is hard to summarize and review Tiger Mother: Son of a Bitch without an undercurrent of disgust, even when trying to temper it with pity. Derrick Lin’s self-published work, written in “a matter of ...
- 8 Surprising Myths About Relationships
There are hundreds of myths about relationships, according to Terri Orbuch, Ph.D, a Michigan clinical psychologist and author of ...
- A Band-Aid for a Marriage in Crisis
Imagine a heavy-duty truck riding off the road, slipping down a hill and getting stuck in thick, sticky mud. Trying ...
- Couples Therapists Reveal: 15 Lessons I’ve Learned About Relationships
Relationships are hard, no doubt about it.
There’s no magic elixir or method to making them work. ...
- Resetting Roles: A Challenge for Everyone
A new study by Forbes Woman and the pregnancy website TheBump.com found that 92 percent of working moms and 89 ...
- Daddies Do Make A Difference
“Congratulations on your wife’s pregnancy,” I said to an acquaintance I ran into in the parking lot at the grocery store. ...
- Constancy, Care and Courage: The 3 Cs of Successful Fathering
Fathers Day is coming around again. On the third Sunday of June in the U.S., ...
