The Real Need For Human Connection: Why AI Chatbots Won’t Replace A Human Therapist

Everyone seems eager to share their thoughts about AI these days.  I’m one of the few exceptions.  I didn’t want to touch this topic because I felt that I lacked the expertise to even discuss it.  However, I’ve been getting more and more questions from my patients...

Romantic Relationships are Complicated

“It shouldn’t be that complicated,” is a comment I hear frequently from struggling couples I work with, referring to marriage.  But the reality is, marriage and romantic partnerships are very messy and complicated. Think about it, when you share a living space with...

The Best Relationship Advice We’ve Heard So Far This Year

Dear Followers, The world’s longest scientific study of happiness, conducted by Harvard researchers, shows that strong relationships keep us healthier and happier. This references all types of relationships – friends, family, romantic, work colleagues – regardless of...
Is your romantic relationship running you ragged?

Is your romantic relationship running you ragged?

More than you might think. There are no easy solutions or magic pills that will guarantee victory for either. Both involve a substantial commitment of time and effort. Neither is an impossible feat designed for special people.  They are for people like YOU, who want...

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Have you hit a wall in your relationship?

Have you hit a wall in your relationship?

Have you ever felt like your relationship was at a standstill? Like you and your partner have hit a wall and keep repeating the same flawed relationship patterns, and can’t seem to move forward? You want to keep going but you don’t know how to get unstuck? This is a...

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Should You Ever Lie To Your Partner?

Should You Ever Lie To Your Partner?

When I was a little girl, my Dad, - a very wise man who was passionate about justice -  told me that I should always look people in the eyes and tell them the truth.  I imagine many of you have been told the same. Relationships should be based on honesty.  By being...

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How To Transform Conflict Into Closeness

How To Transform Conflict Into Closeness

Recently, in between one of our weekly meetings, a high-conflict couple I am working with emailed me several pages of intense communications they had with one another.  Ostensibly, this was to highlight how they slid back into their typical primitive, reptile-like...

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Sabotaging Your Romantic Relationships

Sabotaging Your Romantic Relationships

It’s Not Me, It’s You – Or is it? We all do it.  We think our relationships have problems because our partner needs to do something differently. “She’s so self-centered.  I never feel understood.” “My husband is so inflexible and will rarely change his opinions. Did...

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Change Or Improve Your Relationship

Change Or Improve Your Relationship

How To Use The Power Of Empathy To Revive, Change Or Improve Your Relationship What Is Empathy? Simply put, empathy is understanding: the sensing of another person’s underlying feelings, wants, and emotional dynamics – looking at the world through their lenses – “What...

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Post-divorce Aloneness – Part 1

Post-divorce Aloneness – Part 1

Your divorce has thrown you into a very lonely place full of conflicted feelings of rejection and longing, love and hate, remorse and rage, not to mention sadness and relief. While you used to have a counterpart to help you through hard times, now you are on your own...

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Post-divorce Aloneness – Part 2

Post-divorce Aloneness – Part 2

In my clinical practice, a very common reaction to the loss of a partner is “I don’t know who I am anymore.” Sound familiar? One of my clients aptly referred to his post-divorce aloneness as the “panic of the I.” He compared his feelings to those of a toddler who...

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What Have You Done For Your Partner Lately?

What Have You Done For Your Partner Lately?

As part of my professional training, I spent many years studying psychoanalytic theory and technique. In short, my job was to help my clients examine past relationships for the purpose of understanding their present ones. The goal of the therapy was to develop...

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Dysfunctional Relationships

Dysfunctional Relationships

Would You Know If You Were In A Dysfunctional Relationship? Definition The terms “toxic,” “dysfunctional,” and “codependent” are used to describe relationships that are not working. Although experts decipher differences in their meanings, the terms are often used...

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