Nice guys finish last?

In my practice, I get to hear both sides of a common struggle of the sexes: women struggle to find a good, quality guy and some of the guys who fit that description can’t seem to get the women. What’s this all about? Well, Dean Melcher, founder of The Modern Man, a company in Australia […]

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Facebook Divorce.

You’ll probably have one of two reactions to this article and your reaction will probably say a lot about your age. A recent study by Divorce-Online of 5,000 divorce papers found that 20% off them referenced Facebook, primarily because individuals were having secret online chats with friends. This is where you’re thinking either “I told […]

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Money. The Root of All… Conflict?

Household finances is one of the crucial topics that I help couples discuss in premarital therapy. Those couples that don’t have this conversation before tying the knot often end up disagreeing about it later in their relationships. There are different ways that couples can handle their finances, which is why couples really need to figure […]

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Mental Health Parity

Starting today, there’s a good chance that your health insurance plan will offer better coverage for mental health services. As part of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, most private sector health plans will be required to provide insurance coverage for mental and addictive disorder services with the same terms as […]

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It’s the Economy, Scared?

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that sometimes “money costs too much.” If you haven’t felt the cost of the economic crunch lately, then you probably know someone who has. I don’t need to go into detail about how bad things are; we hear about it constantly. Still, think for a moment about how you’ve been […]

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New Year, New You?

We all know well that New Year’s resolutions usually don’t work. In fact, more than 85 percent of us don’t succeed at them (J. Grenny, Influencer, McGraw Hill, 2007). What you may not know is that this modern-day ritual of seeking change at the New Year can be traced back thousands of years to Janus, […]

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Red and Blue Relationships

The chairs in my office for working with couples are different colors: one’s red and the other’s blue. I sometimes joke that the red one is for the Republican and the blue one is for the Democrat. Of course, relationships are more difficult than just knowing which chair we’re supposed to sit in. The nature […]

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Navigating the ‘Quarterlife Crisis’

“My father never talked about buying a sports car in his middle years, but I sure feel like I could use one – or at least a six month trek across Europe”, said James, a 27-year-old client who worked for a federal agency and couldn’t stand sitting in front of a computer for nine hours […]

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