What Every Married Woman Should Know
10 PRE-DIVORCE TIPS
Just about everyone who marries wants a happy and long-lasting union. But not everyone gets that. And, when divorce raises its ugly head, most people—especially women—are unprepared. I want to help people understand the land mines that they may encounter through the separation, divorce and dating-again experience and how they can rebuild their [...]
Relationship Competency
ARE YOU THE PARTNER YOU SEEK?
By Ann Robbins
Many of my clients come to me with a laundry list of things they are seeking in a relationship partner. I am frequently amazed at how easily they are able to recite this list of criteria, yet fail to look in the mirror and discover, or uncover, their [...]
Mayday!
ASKING FOR HELP IS UNIVERSALLY
DREADED— BUT IT’S A SKILL THAT
YOU CAN LEARN
By M. Nora Klaver
The good news? You can learn to ask for help. But first, you’ve got to figure why you don’t, why you should and how you can.
WHY WE DON’T ASK FOR HELP
Asking for help is so frightening that, even when faced with [...]
Navigating your way back to you
Be Conscious of Why You Commit
By Asia Sharif-Clark
It starts with one ripple at a time. Ripples come to us in the form of tiny tasks that we’re sure will only take a few minutes to complete. Before you know it, you’ve committed your time to five or ten tiny tasks that aren’t so tiny [...]
Forgiveness
Honoring the Sacred in Everyday Life
By Susyn Reeve
My New Year’s Resolution
January 1, 2007
I Am Forgiving
It is hard to go through a day without hearing on radio or seeing on television stories of war, abuse and violence. We seem to be entrenched in a consciousness in which blame, resentment, anger and separation are considered normal. I [...]
Reclaim Family Time
How to Balance Youth Sports and Family Life
By Brooke de Lench
In fact, surveys show that today’s sports-active kids and their parents get too caught up in the crazy sports vortex. Today’s parents spend eleven hours fewer a week with their teenagers than they did two decades ago. The average mother spends less than a half [...]
POINTS: women have them; men need them
A LIGHTHEARTED LOOK AT HOW TO CREATE
A FUN AND SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
By I. Glebe
For years couples have been at war. Who left the seat up? Who dented the car? And all this time, unbeknownst to men, women have been keeping score. That is, men have been earning points by their kind and considerate actions and losing [...]
The Truth About Break-ups
HAPPINESS IS AN INSIDE JOB
By Dr. Deborah King
The dream of love and “happily ever after” has slipped through your fingers. You wonder if romantic notions would best be erased from your mind altogether. After all, this is not the first time a break-up has left your heart in a shambles and your outlook as [...]
How Not To Fight
MYTHS ABOUT FIGHTING IN RELATIONSHIPS
By Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D.
In counseling, couples are often surprised to learn they can communicate and solve problems effectively without fighting. But you may find it’s not so easy to give up your struggles. You may have trouble letting go of the fighting habit because of two factors: social expectations (expectations [...]
Being Single
Being Single
A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO PREPARE
FOR THE LIFE AND RELATIONSHIP YOU WANT
By Ann Robbins
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
When is the last time you asked yourself, “What do I want to do, be, and have?” This is not only fun, it’s enlightening. Look ahead to the next ten years. Make three lists with about twenty-five to thirty [...]
