We get asked this all the time. “With about a bazillion shrinks and coaches and assorted helpers and advisors running around out there, what makes you guys special? What is it like to come to you for help?” (more…)
OK, maybe you shouldn’t fire your doctor. The point is that an essential part of your feeling well and being well is your making sure that YOU are in charge of everything involving your health. That includes your deciding who your doctor is and everything else about your health. Why is this so important? (more…)
It happens a lot more often than you might think. People enter a kind of love limbo where the boundaries and definitions of who they are to each other get confused. Friends with benefits (interesting new research here), marrieds who don’t sleep together, people getting divorced who continue to sleep together, relationships where working together and loving each other get blurred and tangled, and lots of other ways to be in the no-man’s-land of relationships. Is this freedom, or is it a mess? (more…)
People often ask us how we come to write our books. Well, here’s the answer for one of our best sellers: Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship.
One day a couple came to us who were both psychiatrists. Their relationship was not in great shape. They came right out and said that they didn’t know whether they should keep trying or just pull the plug on the whole thing. It’s not that they wanted us to tell them what to do. But they did want clear solid information about what it would be best for them to do.And that hit us between the eyes. Wow, if that couple with all their knowledge and experience couldn’t figure out what to do, then what about the rest of us? (more…)
