Couples Therapy In Seven Words

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How can we age well? As the proportion of the population above 65 continues to grow, this question is occupying more and more of our mind…

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What is ethical nonmonogamy? What’s the difference between couples therapy and sex therapy? And how does the idea that we’re each actuall…

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A magic key that solves all relationship problems? In a single phrase, yet? Well, okay, it does take a little bit of explaining. But it’s…

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When Bruce came up with the Seven Words (Be Kind, Don't Panic, and Have Faith) he was thinking about couples and couples therapy. When ex…

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What is “erotic orientation,” and how is it different from sexual orientation? How can therapists help mixed-orientation cou…

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Military families have to deal with a host of challenges, often simultaneously: frequent relocations, deployments, PTSD, culture…

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Our guests today are co-founders of The Safety Team, an organization in Vermont with the mission, “Together we prevent violence,…

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We all encounter difficult people—and are sometimes difficult ourselves! But sometimes we’re in situations where we have to fin…

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Having doubts about your relationship? Or have you found out you’re pregnant, and having doubts about what to do about that? We r…

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There are lots of books out there about how to survive when you’ve been cheated on. But our guest in this episode, Dr. Deborah Mi…

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Wait, what? Genocide, optimism, and belly dancing in the same conversation? Our guests, Emily Bashah and Paul Johnson, cover thos…

The term “gaslighting” is from a 1940s movie in which the Charles Boyer character tries to convince the Ingrid Bergman character that she’s losing her mind. And the term shows up frequently in the co…

Hannah Spanke tells us about her journey of healing, a journey that took her through sex work, addiction issues, and relationship struggles on the way to years of personal growth and professional tra…

Author Billie Best nursed her husband through to his death from cancer, and then discovered that he had been having an affair for years. She writes about her experience in her book How I Made A Huge …

What is the “erotic equation”? We talk about the idea, first articulated by Jack Morin in his book The Erotic Mind, that eroticism needs obstacles to be hot. Then we revisit the topic of one of our m…

Hundreds of people per month, we see, end up at a particular blog post on Dr. Chalmer’s website from a Google search for something like “My husband complains about my cleaning.” What’s happening? We …

How can our seven-word formula—“Be kind, don’t panic, and have faith”—help your love life? We talk about how those words can guide you as you do the work—sometimes scary work—of healing your passiona…