Family
Jan 28
How Family Therapy Can Help Your Teen
Deciding the best therapy option for your teenager can be challenging. Should you seek individual therapy for them or involve the whole family in family therapy? While both have unique benefits, family therapy offers opportunities...
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How To Balance Parenting and Marriage (Even During a Pandemic)
Did you know that the research shows that marriage takes a hit when you have kids? One author reported in 2005 that an analysis of 90 different research studies showed the drop in marital satisfaction...
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When Family Visits Are Traumatic
What do you do when you’re going to see family for the holidays or on a vacation and you know that not everybody is in that healthy place where they’re going to be able to...
Continue readingDec 19
Couples Living With Extended Family
In the US, living with extended family is increasing. 31% of children in the US now live with at least one additional adult in the house, as well as their parents- normally a family member....
Continue readingMay 16
How Your Parent’s Alcoholism Affects Your Marriage
Adult Children of Alcoholics — did you know that was a thing? ACOA’s are what we call them for short. If you’re an ACOA it means you had at least one parent with a history...
Continue readingDec 6
Loving Your Spouse’s Kids
Families involving stepparents and step children are always tricky. And yet they’re a very common kind of family unit in today’s society. So how do the marriages look in these blended families? As we look...
Continue readingOct 25
What To Do When Your Folks Do Not Like Your Spouse
What do you do when your family and/or friends do not approve of your spouse? As it turns out, there are a number of strategies to help with this, but the most important is just...
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How to Deal With In-Laws: 3 Principles for a Stronger Marriage
The definition of mixed feelings: watching your mother-in-law drive off a cliff in your brand new car. The joke lands because almost everyone has felt some version of it. The strain, the awkward visits, the...
Continue readingAug 26
Back to School! What About Your Marriage?
Back to school means a change in routine for many families. Summer holidays are over (or, will be shortly) and once September arrives we’re into a new rhythm. Verlynda and I thought that this adjustment...
Continue readingJan 7
Sleep Your Way To A Better Marriage – Shawn Stevenson Interview
Here’s a fresh thought for fixing or just strengthening your marriage this year: try improving your sleep quality. Really? Yes, really. In this episode of our marriage podcast, we interview Shawn Stevens. He is a...
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Triangles — How Trigonometry Impacts Your Marriage!
I found the topic of triangles in marriage to be fascinating. How often do I get my nose out of joint by something my husband does? And then try to get my support from someone...
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Three Tips For Rocking Your Vacation
After going on a vacation, have you ever noticed the fact that oftentimes your family and friends are more excited about your vacation than you are? Sure, a lot of us enjoy our vacations, but...
Continue readingJun 4
Six Dynamics That Influence In-Law Relationships, Part 2
We started with the subject of in-laws in Episode 6 and learned that there are some powerful but subtle psychological mechanisms that can come into play in our relationships with our in-laws. The more we...
Continue readingMay 28
Six Dynamics That Influence In-Law Relationships, Part 1
I was at a magic show, when after one particularly amazing trick, someone screamed out, “Wow, how did you do that?” “I would tell you”, answered the magician predictably, “but then I’d have to kill...
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