THE ROAD LESS TRIGGERED

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THE ROAD LESS TRIGGERED

marriage

It’s about a hundred degrees below zero, as my daughter and I get out of the car at...

perfect Valentine's date

I’m a marital therapist And I’ve worked on Valentine’s night. While couples across the world were dining by...

Around this time last year, in Chicago, we were in the middle of a polar vortex. The thermostat...

marriage

I feel bad for marital communication, because it gets blamed for everything. For generations, in survey after survey,...

marriage

I went to college in the golden age of the computer lab—a sterile, windowless room in the basement...

Valentine's Day

I was an adult when I met my wife, but she turned my world upside down—I dropped about...

marriage is a joke

My honeymoon was a disaster. We were two poor graduate students amazed at how cheap it was to...

marriage and communication

I don’t know how I learned anything in my first semester of graduate school. The program was stellar...

communication

For most couples, conflict involves a gradual—or not so gradual—escalation of hostilities. But there is another way to...

marriage

My son was two years old when he became terrified of bees. We were at a neighborhood playground...