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Couples Facing Finances in Lean Times

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
When I was a new therapist, I thought the hardest thing for couples to talk about would be their sex life. Not so. As long as neither one is cheating, talking about sex ...
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Breaking Up? Blame the Chick Flicks!

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
My 20-year-old daughter tells me she thinks the reason so many young relationships fail is because of the “chick flicks.” You know: Those movies where the focus is entirely on the heady romance between a ...
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Who Said It’s Not Your Affair?: Part 2

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
No one is immune to an affair. They can happen in any marriage and - according to some research - do in up to 45 percent of them. Luckily, most marriages survive beyond ...
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White Privilege, Heterosexual Privilege, and Liberal Guilt

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
First there was white privilege. White privilege isn’t something I thought about until I was confronted with a bulletin board full of it. I was at a Unitarian church I had sporadically attended and had ...
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Who Said It’s Not Your Affair? Part 1

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
When politicians make the headlines for having an affair, people often respond by taking the moral high ground. Though affairs of ordinary people do not make it into the news, the truth is that any ...
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Too Much Togetherness Solution: A Hat

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
As a child I remember my great aunt saying irritably, “I promised you ‘for better or for worse’ but not for lunch!” ...
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Finding Love after 60

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
During the last few months of her life, my grandmother Ruth, then 93, was too frail for family to adequately care for at home. With much reluctance, she and we all agreed that a nursing ...
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Outlawed by Your In-laws

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Numerous marital problems can be traced to habitual boundary difficulties between mothers and sons which spill over into the man’s relationship with his spouse. Management of the mother-son relationship from earliest days establishes patterns ...
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When Everyone Else Is Married with Children

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
It started in my mid-twenties. At first it was a slow trickle, then the downpour exploded. Almost all of my friends started getting married. I was a bridesmaid so many times that ...
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Meta-communication: What I Said Isn’t What I Meant

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
"We're not communicating." The woman on the phone thinks she has told me why she and her husband of only a year want to come in for therapy. "Does your husband agree?" I ask. "He thinks ...
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10 Reasons You Don’t Listen

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
We're all guilty of not listening at one point or another in our lives. We tune others out while we're watching the TV, or trying to concentrate on something we're reading. Nowadays, we try hard ...
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7 Myths of Perfect Parenting

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
"I'm so afraid I'm going to blow it." The niece of a friend of mine, 24 and pregnant, confided to me while we were out walking last weekend. "I mean. I'm just figuring out ...
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An Unlikely Reminder of Personal Growth

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
I think it really sucks you jumped to such a conclusion before taking anything I would have to say into consideration and also feeling the need to tell me of your planned selfish act. Based ...
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Three Men, One Month: The Match.com Journey Continues

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
I have now been on roughly a month’s worth of Match.com dates. None of them was completely awful, but some were definitely better than others. Date One: The Liquid Hater I started with a man I ...
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We Shouldn’t Need a Day of Our Own

Saturday, May 9th, 2009
Everybody in the United States is terribly aware the second Sunday in May is Mother's Day -- the floral and greeting card industries won’t let you forget it. Mother's Day is big business. (Whether people ...
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