“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”   ~Friedrich Nietzsche Couples need to like each other and couples need to be really good friends to each other. I often hear from couples struggling with marital or relationship problems that they used to be great friends and this [...]

“Why should I indulge him like that? He isn’t a child…” By all accounts, Larissa is stingy with her praise. And she knows this about herself. In her mind, saying “thanks” or “I appreciate what you did” to her husband Daniel is unnecessary. When questioned about the kind of husband Daniel is, Larissa quickly acknowledges [...]

The patterns and rhythms of our lives make it easy to forget what day it is—for many it can feel like our days simply blend together. Mondays feel no different from Tuesdays which seem to blur into Wednesdays and so on.  Sometimes our days are distinguished solely by whether it’s a work-day or a day [...]