Coming Out

Almost every day I find myself sitting across from a client who’s struggling with relationship envy, only the relationship that they’re envious of doesn’t really exist. It’s a curated version of a relationship (or, relationships) that they see on Facebook and Instagram. If you’re popular on social media, it’s because ...

My boyfriend of 3 years is the jealous type and sometimes takes it too far. A month ago, he went through my phone and came across a chat with a friend of the other gender, with whom he was already apprehensive with. The chat was purely platonic but [contained] a ...

Years ago, I was terrified of opening the mail. Email was easier for me, but it rubbed up against the same nerve. And voicemail? Forget it. I hated checking voicemail so much that I was one of the earliest adopters of having it translated to email – the absence of ...

If you find yourself having the same issues in your relationships – intimate or platonic – it’s not a coincidence: It’s a lack of self-awareness.  People with self-awareness know what their strengths and weaknesses are, and they know how those weaknesses affect others.  You have opportunities on a daily basis ...

Over the last few weeks my wife’s behavior has changed. She has been hanging out with friends almost every night, not coming home until 6AM, having sleepovers (WTF?!), and even ditching our plans to do other things with other people. I’ve expressed to her that I’d like her to find ...

Me and my fiancé have arguments like any other couple but he freezes up and becomes sarcastic with what I’m trying to work through. I want to work on getting through the arguments the correct way by not having it blow up big time. But he says he doesn’t ever ...