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Connection is the most important part of any intimate relationship, however, it is usually the part that is most neglected. If your connection to your partner isn’t fueled, the fire can go out. When the relationship was new the connection got fed by the excitement, the hormones and the unlimited possibilities. Then, life happened and…
Depression can be a debilitating disease, and when it begins to affect a marriage or relationship it can sometime cause irreparable damage. It’s estimated that 16 million adults in our country have experienced at least one major depressive episode. If you feel your partner or spouse may be experiencing depression it’s important that you take…
Statistically, couples seek out therapy on average 7 later than they should have. While that may sound daunting, it is never too late to save your relationship – if that is what the both of you want. As with individual therapy, finding the right couples therapist is key. Here are some guidelines to help you…
What happens when your relationship is a bit stale? Do you feel like you don’t need couples therapy but you could definitely use a little boost? The following is a small list of exercises that a couples therapist may give to a couple to bridge the gap and enhance their connection. 1. Couples Interview: No…
By Susan Menahem, LCSW Clinical Executive Director No matter how long you’ve been together, who doesn’t want the excitement and intoxicating feelings of love, romance and intimacy lingering throughout their relationship? Well, have no fear, because if your relationship romance meter is stalled in the dead zone, I’m here to help you revive it….
by Margie Nichols, Ph.D. On August 11 2013, The New York Times published an article by Judith Warner in its Sunday Magazine, entitled “The Opt-Out Generation Wants Back In,” a revisiting of the women interviewed in Lisa Belkin’s 2003 Times article “The Opt-Out Revolution.” The women, who had all given up high-powered jobs to be…
by Margie Nichols, Ph.D. Starting in the 1980’s a small handful of social science researchers began to study same sex couples, mostly to see their relationships lasted as long as straight folk and whether kids raised in gay households grew up to be ‘normal.’ Along the way, the studies have revealed a lot more about similarities and differences…
By now most people have heard about John Gottman’s research comparing gay and straight couples, publicized a few years back. Gottman, a respected psychologist and researcher, did a study of gay relationships that revealed that for the most part same and mixed sex couples had similar similar levels of relationship satisfaction, similar problems, and coped with the…
by Margie Nichols In Part 1 I maintain that sexual compatibility is way more important in making a (monogamous) relationship satisfying than we realize. And the more I wrote, the more I realized that the vestigial Puritan fear/distaste of sex our culture carries not only makes it hard to admit that you really, really, really…
by Margie Nichols, Ph.D. I’ve been following the E-Harmony debate with interest. No, not the controversy about their CEO’s stupid anti-gay remarks. I mean the scientific debate, about the truth of the site’s claims that it is able to match people for maximum relationship compatibility. E-Harmony has a proprietary algorithm that apparently matches people on…
