When Irritations Strike
When I meet with couples before they get married, during their last season of premarital counseling, I ask, “What do you fight about?” The couples I worry most about are…
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Missed Communication?
Has this ever happened to you? You speak a sentence to your spouse. It’s nothing very different, really, from any of the other sentences you speak every day. At the…
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The Problem Is Not Really the Problem
Tammy walked into my office defeated. The way she walked, slowly, deliberately, and practically dragging her purse, suggested a weariness I’d seen in her before. “Another fight?” I asked as…
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Ghost Busting
Terri’s first husband had an affair. She came home one day to discover he had packed his stuff and moved in with a woman half his age. The fallout from…
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Your Husband the Volcano
Living with an angry husband is like living at the base of an active volcano. It can keep you in a constant state of hyper vigilance—always on the alert, anticipating…
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Stop Fighting & Start Connecting
Many couples come to The Marriage Recovery Center full of bitterness, anger, and resentment. They find themselves trapped in this continuous cycle of fighting, trying to prove their point, or…
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Breaking the Complaining Trap
I argued with a client today at The Marriage Recovery Center. Betsy, a forty-two year old mother of three, had come for a two day Personal Intensive, hoping she could…
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