Get Serious, About Your Marriage

Relationship Design

This past weekend my wife and I celebrated our 22nd anniversary. Imagine if I woke up that day and I could no longer move my right arm. Everything else in my body felt fine and was working as it should. I even had feeling in my arm, I just couldn’t move it. What...

The Secret to a Deeper Marriage Relationship

Relationship Design

Most everyone wants to have a great marriage. And everyone enters in to marriage with the hopes of deep connection. I’ve yet to encounter someone who entered into marriage with the thought “I can’t wait to be miserable with you in several...

Marriage Help, When Your Spouse Isn't Interested

Goals and Dreams, Relationship Design

I regularly receive emails from readers looking for help with a struggle in their marriage. They disclose the issues they are having as well as their desire to work on making things better. The biggest reason many people in this type of situation fail to go to...

How To Choose A Shrink: Part 2

Family and Kids, Goals and Dreams, Relationship Design

If you happened to miss the initial guide, be sure to check it out. One reader asked a few very good follow up questions based on part one. Here is an excerpt: Finding a therapist, especially when there isn’t anything catastrophic wrong, is a challenging thing....

A Handy Guide To Choosing A Shrink

Family and Kids, Goals and Dreams, Relationship Design

When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic. ~Carl Rogers As you may or may not know, my paying gig is as a marriage and family therapist. I’ve had a private practice in the town where I live for 12 years now...