Love Maps —“You like tomato and I like tomahto” Last night I made a salad for dinner. I picked fresh lemon cucumbers and baby lettuces from the garden, topping it with a grilled chicken breast we had cooked the night before. David added whole red cherry and yellow pear tomatoes still warm from the garden.At […]
Learning to Stay Calm During Difficult Discussions
By the time couples come to couples therapy, they have a built up a lot of tension around recurring problems. For instance, when Joe and Amy came to therapy they had been arguing about who has it harder with respect to chores and child-care. Each felt they were sacrificing more than the other. This led […]
Summer Travels and Travails: Tips for Stress-free Vacations
Tips for Making Summer Vacations Stress-Proof: or at least stress-resistant By now, most of us have either taken the long-awaited summer vacation or are in the midst of planning the final details of packing. Whether you are fantasizing or fretting at this final stage of planning your vacation, there are several things you can do […]
Strains of Summer on Family Life
School is out. Swim season is in full swing. From my home, I hear the loud speaker blasting from the community pool. Cheers erupt at regular intervals. Minivans and SUVs line the streets in the blocks adjacent to the swim club. Like many parents residing in the suburbs, I enjoyed, sometimes endured, the annual ritual […]
