When Sleeping Dogs Won’t Lie
People often have anxiety about getting help for their marriages. That anxiety can have many sources. For example, concern about what others will think—will they
People often have anxiety about getting help for their marriages. That anxiety can have many sources. For example, concern about what others will think—will they
At the Marriage Recovery Center, we talk a lot about women who have been emotionally abused. I have written about this tragedy extensively and I
As I frequently say, covert abuse is an epidemic we must face. We must become informed and trained to reach out and intervene in situations
For years researchers have championed the positive aspects of being married. Healthy marriages offer us opportunities to have a partner in facing stress, a mate
No one deserves to be mistreated by another. No one! To be insulated from mistreatment, however, we must always be on the alert for those
Many of our blogs identify the narcissist as “him” and the victim as “her.” While most of our content leans that way, and most of
One of the most common things we hear at the Marriage Recovery Center on the subject of narcissism goes something like this: “Everything thing I
I am spending increasing amounts of time with my five grandchildren. They are at the same time delightful, charming, engaging, manipulative, deceptive and self-centered. They
“I can’t believe the way I act toward my husband,” a client told me recently. “I speak in ways I never used to. I call
The church was a large part of my childhood. Raised by hard-working parents, I lived in “small town America,” in a neighborhood with other families
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