I don’t usually hide in bathroom stalls texting friends in order to avoid social situations. But sometimes, it’s the only option.   My husband Varun is Indian and I am not.  Our differences add a richness to our marriage that I’ve come to treasure, but every now and then they also highlight the importance of [...]

The things that draw us together when dating and getting to know each other are often the very things that cause conflicts a few years into marriage.  How do we embrace our differences? How can we love each other through the strengths and weaknesses our differences create? In our twenty plus years of marriage, finances [...]

Only in romantic fantasy does everything go smoothly without attention, care and change.

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Dealing with Pressure

Do you remember the first time you played your sport? What did that feel like? Was it fun? Why did you keep playing? Was it the friendships, the competition or that you simply enjoyed it?  It’s ok to simply enjoy sport, that’s one of the reasons it exists.  Have you lost your enjoyment of sport? [...]

I have struggled with horrible PMS for years, only to have it lifted at menses. I feel guilty about not being able to keep my raging hormones out of my personal life. Advice: Hormone fluctuations definitely play on our emotions because when estrogen levels decrease – serotonin levels decrease as well. Serotonin helps us feel [...]

My son is fifteen years old turning sixteen. He has always been an easy-going, easily adaptable, pleasant child. The last two weeks I noticed, especially on weekends, that he seems a little agitated. When I questioned him, he said that he is feeling frustrated and just feels like breaking something or just putting his fist [...]

There are six love busters that marriages need to be careful of. This study focuses on the difference between selfish demands and thoughtful requests. You will recognize what a demand is and how it negatively affects your relationship. This study will help gain tools to change this behavior to healthy negotiation with long term change [...]

All of us have experienced situations where we do not see eye to eye with other people. Sometimes, differences are hard to resolve and they create feelings of anger and resentment. If these feelings are not acknowledged and dealt with, a simple disagreement can break into an out- and-out war. When this happens, we may [...]

Getting cut off in traffic, a missed deadline, spilt coffee, a cranky child - it doesn’t take much to upset us these days. A recent study by Yale School of Management professor Sigal G. Barsade and Donald Gibson of Fairfield University showed that 1 in 4 Americans feel at least somewhat angry at work. That’s a [...]

Getting cut off in traffic, a missed deadline, spilt coffee, a cranky child - it doesn’t take much to upset us these days. A recent study by Yale School of Management professor Sigal G. Barsade and Donald Gibson of Fairfield University showed that 1 in 4 Americans feel at least somewhat angry at work. That’s a [...]