Children can become damaged by unfair divorce settlements, especially if one parent struggles financially after divorce. Kevin Costner needs to make sure his settlement is fair.
If You’re Thinking of Leaving Your Spouse, Read This ….
Becky Whetstone, Ph.D. You’ve been unhappy in your relationship for a long time. You can taste the idea of freedom, focusing on your own needs, a new start. How can you walk away and not cause much damage? You sit on the porch pondering what it would be like to leave after so many years Read More
Why is it So Hard to Divorce Your Toxic Biological Family?
“Toxic relationships bring out the worst in you.” — Anonymous Families fighting one another happens every day, in every corner of the world … celebrities, royal families, billionaires, people like you and me — no one is immune. In my experience as a family therapist, it’s one of the most common emotional and mental health Read More
From a Therapist: Seven Things You Can Do Now to Get Through the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Coping mechanisms for a pandemic lifestyle.
Your family is nuts and you still visit for the holidays?
How to manage obnoxious, unkind, unfair and disrespectful kin. As the season for family get togethers approaches, numerous clients reach out to their therapists for an inoculation of protection, meant to shield them from the verbal and emotional land mines they will encounter when stepping into their extended family zones. A therapist can assure a Read More
Why the Words Selfish and Selfless Need to Removed from the English Language.
The American culture has dysfunctional beliefs and values that affect and injure us all, and two that have especially limited people’s ability to thrive are the toxin-packed adjectives selfless and selfish. Our society perpetuates the idea that individuals of highest character are those who are selfless, doing absolutely nothing for themselves, and the lowest form, the selfish, because they do. Another word that can go away while we’re at it, is deserve.
Emergency Advice for Cheaters Who Just Got Caught.
My latest blog on Medium! Please tell me what you think!
(Don’t Hate me For Saying) You Need to Give More to Your Relationship
“This one thinks being dependent or having needs is weak,” she said, as she pushed herself forward on the couch, pointing toward her husband. “Because of this, I’m not supposed to ask him for anything. Is this really true? It just doesn’t make sense to me. If that’s what it is, then what is marriage?” Read More
Empathize today or lose your relationship tomorrow.
Just about every adult knows that the characteristic described as empathy is a desirable trait. Without it, interactions between two people become very problematic, as I see weekly in my marriage therapy practice, with at least 50 percent of the couples I work with, at some point, declaring, “(Insert partner’s name here) has NO empathy.” Read More
Why getting dumped (when you’re single) is a good thing.
My office carpet has gotten wet many times with the tears of single men and women in the throes of intense pain felt from romantic rejection, usually asking, “What is wrong with me? Why didn’t they like me? What did I do wrong?” It always pains me to see good people blaming a break up Read More