Q: If I am in a dating relationship which has moved out of the ‘tingly’ love stage, how do I know that I am still in love with this person as we transition into the love languages stage? A: This is an excellent question because everybody if you date long enough will move from the euphoria of…
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year holidays are often times of warm memories and happy family experiences. Just as often, however, it can be a time of extraordinary stress and dreaded conflict in the family. Some—especially young married couples—find this season one of being torn between the expectations (and sometimes downright demands) of parents and in-laws….
January can be a huge month for relationship breakups. Ironically, because it’s also a popular time for couples to get engaged, when a couple that has been together a long time watches couples who have been together a matter of months take the plunge, that can lead to a lot of soul-searching: So what’s wrong…
Q: “We are a newlywed couple. Just before getting married my fiancé joked two different times about good looking women in front of me. I got offended and when we talked about it, he said for him it didn’t mean anything and that it was only a joke—we moved on. Now that we are married…
My wife and I sat across our large kitchen table from a bright, young newlywed couple several months ago. They had asked us to do their pre-marital counseling many months before and we wanted to sit down with them after their first three months of marital bliss to ask them how things were going. We…
