Category Archives: Relationships

Borderline Personality: Does a BPD Diagnosis Imply Raging?

One aspect of the cluster of traits that lead to a borderline personality diagnosis lies at the core of this disorder. Hint: it's NOT anger.

Boundaries, Privacy and Intimacy Are Cultural Phenomena

When couples start with different cultural backgrounds, their his-way, her-way expectations of intimacy, of what is private and what can be shared, can be confusing.

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, So Here’s a 6-Step How-To

Relationship endings can be difficult. This strategy works whether you are the one who initiates the breakup or the one who receives the bad news.

Can a 4-Step Self-Help Therapy Technique End Upset Feelings?

Therapists use this technique to help their clients gain insight and feel better. Can it also relieve upset feelings if you use it as a self-help technique?

Can All Conflicts About Sex Be Resolved? If So, How?

This is the 7th post in a series addressing the question of whether and how all conflicts can be resolved. Sexual differences can be particularly sensitive to discuss.

Can Energy Therapies Augment Conventional Couple Therapy?

I'm a conventional therapist who has become convinced that some of the new energy therapy techniques need to become a standard part of every psychotherapist's repertoir. Here's why.

Can I Trust My Gut to Know I’ve Found My True Love

Use these five short tests to help you assess if a person who feels like a marriage candidate would be a good choice for sealing the deal as husband and wife.

Age-Gap Couples in the Twilight Zone

Couples with a large chronilogical age difference may initially feel very similar in terms of emotional age. Still, they are likely to face logistical challenges vis a vis their life-stage differences. She may be eager for children, when he's wanting to visit the grandkids. How will the age differences affect them twenty years later?

Am I Heading for a Bad Marriage? My Spouse Is So Annoying

If only my spouse would change... Or is that a mistaken path to follow?

And Now Matt Lauer…Why Celebrities Get Sexually Aggressive

TV's Matt Lauer today joined the club of men in high positions who are being accused of sexual improprieties with women at work. What could he have been thinking? Here's what.