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The Art of Receiving: Let in the Love! art of receiving relationships

I can’t tell you how many people come into my office to discover that they have a complete inability to accept compliments and/or be on the receiving end of nice gestures. If this sounds familiar, I’m telling you that there are people out there trying to do nice things for you...

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Healthy Entitlement: Take What's Yours, For Relationships' Sake. art of receiving couples therapy entitlement relationships

So many people are under the impression that displaying generosity and constant friendliness are manners of being a good person. But what if I told you that forgetting to, not only give but, receive from other people is detrimental to your relationships? Being kind and generous are wonderful...

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The Secret To Better Relationships: Understanding Attachment Styles attachment styles couples therapy relationships

How familiar does this sound? A couple has a fight and while one of them is insistent on solving the problem immediately, the other is insistent on leaving. …so you have one person exiting the room while the other relentlessly chases them down. Even if this has never happened to you, I'm...

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Top 5 Things Your Partner Wants From You couples therapy relationships

As I’ve said before, I hate gender stereotyping but, once again, I’d be foolish to not acknowledge the trends respectively belonging to the men and women who come to my office.  Sidebar: What’s written here is not the truth for all couples and the preferences listed can...

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Codependency: When You "Care" Too Much and the Importance of Badass Boundaries boundaries codependency couples therapy mental health relationships

         Is “no” a word you have difficulty using with most people in your life?  Do you often stay at work late?  Do you rarely take your allotted breaks?  Do you continuously pay your adult child’s rent?  Are you doing most of the...

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