Category Archives: Communication

Home Is Where You Feel Safe. How Emotionally Safe Is Yours?

How aware are you of potential emotional hazards in your household?

From Thin-Skin to Win-Win: How Couples Counseling Helps

Are you and your loved one living the opposite of happily ever after? If your partnership is yielding fear, resentment or anger, maybe it's time to reverse the trend.

Hanger: When Hunger Breeds Anger

Preventive action can address low blood sugar from creating irritability.

Happy Marriage, Happy Life

What level of achievement do you aim for in your marriage? Are you satisfied with a good enough relationship or do you aim to become a dream-team?

Fighting About Money? Beware!

When couples fight about money, they are moving forward on a high risk road. Danger ahead.

For an Instant Relationship Upgrade, Stop Using This Phrase

Babies have needs. Are you a baby? If not, better find alternative words to "need" for expressing preferences.

Forgiveness? “I Forgive You” Makes Me Cringe

A former Miss America was molested for 15 years, from age 3 until she was 18, by her father. Does she forgive him? Should she? What is the nature of forgiveness?

Four Characteristics of Effective Conversations

What patterns characterize productive and satisfying conversations?

Four Ways to Assure You Won’t Get What You Want

Here's four ways that are likey to create bad feelings with work colleagues. They can also help you lose your job, end your love relationships, and wreck your holidays.

Discipline with Babies and Toddlers

Even the most endearing of babies manage from time to time to do things that are provocative. It's best though to eliminate punishing them or even getting mad. There's less stressful, less hurtful, and far more effective ways to take charge.