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One of the things that often brings couples into therapy is the discover/disclosure of an affair by one of the partners. There are many ways we can examine the impact of affairs. I had considered alternate titles to this blog such as “Advantage: AP” (noting that the affair partner always has the advantage over your […]
November 1, 2019
This was an interesting article from Psychology Today on the reasons people cheat on a romantic partner. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/meet-catch-and-keep/201910/8-reasons-people-cheat The reasons are not entirely consistent with what I see in therapy, but perhaps there are differences in the population we are sampling. For example, people who have “fallen out of love with their partner” may not […]
July 12, 2015
The apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthian church about spiritual gifts. 1 Cor. 12: 4-11: There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. Now to […]
April 25, 2015
“You do realize, that if you actually dated her, saw her on a regular basis, lived with her, that she would find some fault with you, right? That she would find some things about you that drove her crazy. That she’d make demands of you that you wouldn’t like. That she’d get angry at you?” […]
February 5, 2015
About three years ago, I did a series of posts on Recognizing the Demon Dialogues. These ideas were not original to me, but were coming from the work of Sue Johnson who is the theorist who developed Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy. Essentially, the demon dialogues are patterns of interaction that couples fall into that devastate […]
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