MIRA KIRSHENBAUM

Mira Kirshenbaum has an international reputation as a therapist for individuals, couples, and families. She is co-founder and clinical director of The Chestnut Hill Institute. A sought-after speaker, Mira is the author of nine award-winning books, some national and international bestsellers. She has appeared many times on the Today Show and has been interviewed by Oprah Winfrey.

Wrap your mind around this, if you can: women who try to help men get out of supposedly bad marriages by having affairs with them.  Shocked?  Surprised?  Sadly, I’m neither shocked nor surprised.  I see it happen all the time. 

This may well be what happened to John Edwards, based on a Newsweek piece by Jonathan Darman.  Read the rest of this entry. »

Well, Mike Lupica and Maureen Dowd have had their say. And while they said it well they said nothing – of course nobody likes what John Edwards did Duh. You’d have to be brain dead not to feel that way. So what’s so smart about asserting that he did a bad thing? Maybe that’s why a lot of people are talking about our previous blog. Read the rest of this entry. »

Ken doll in lust?  That’s what New York Times columnist Gail Collins called John Edwards in her op-ed piece today.  Randy, empty, silly, plastic.  A human zero.   But what’s  the truth?  Read the rest of this entry. »

With all the controversy that’s been swirling around my new book, When Good People Have Affairs, you can catch a glimpse of how I really feel in a recent interview I did on the CBS Early Show.

Bottom line. Keep love alive. Marriage is the best way to do it. Check out my Revolution blog for lots of tips about how to do it. Love is too important for us to kid ourselves about.

There’s a recent article about me in the Guardian that finally gets close to the truth about what I’m all about.  Which is good, because there’s been a lot of distortion, and some downright lies.  Read the rest of this entry. »

This is a relationship blog; so what does Alzheimer’s disease have to do with your relationships? It should be clear to you by now, my faithful friend, that almost everything has to do with relationships. Check it out: Read the rest of this entry. »

I thought you’d like to see this Time.com interview about When Good People Have Affairs. Andrea did a great job. Instead of bashing me for things I didn’t say, she gives me the chance to tell the truth. Enjoy!
If you want to see the interview right here, keep reading.
Love, Mira

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Our blog called Healthy Relationships on RevolutionHealth.com has recently received some rave reviews.

In a list of the top 100 medical blogs, ours was one of only 5 mentioned in the mental health category and was the ONLY relationship blog to be honored.

And ours came in at #3 in a list of the 100 best blogs for relationship advice.

So keep reading, keep adding your comments, and let’s all try even harder to do our best.

I think I’m beginning to get it. When it comes to infidelity, for some people the only thing you are allowed to say is that cheating is bad. If you write a book about cheating, then like Bart Simpson writing on the blackboard in the opening credits, all you can say is “Cheating is bad” over and over for a couple of hundred pages.

And if you say anything else it blows their circuits and makes them furious and stupid. They just don’t get it. The question is, what don’t they get? Read the rest of this entry. »