The Perfect Marriage
The perfect marriage begins when each partner believes they got better than they deserved. -Source Unknown
The Person You Marry
You don’t marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being married to you. -Richard Needham
Marriage
There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry… It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves. -Jane Austin, Mansfield Park
Bipolar Disorder in the Workplace
There are different kinds of depression disorders. The most common, Major Depressive Disorder, affects as many as 1 out of 4 adults in the U.S. Bipolar Disorder (manic-depression) is considerably more rare. A new study from Harvard Medical School looks at the cost of Bipolar Disorder to American businesses. Bipolar disorder, sometimes known as manic [...]
Falling Out of Love
One paragraph in this article really stuck with me. The writer, Jennifer Babulsky with the Altoona Mirror, interviewed several individuals about their marriages which had ended following an affair. The part that hit me was a quote from a therapist: “A lot of people”, (claims Dr. Robert Huizenga, a licensed marital and family therapist at [...]
Parenting Styles and Obesity
A new study in the journal Pediatrics suggests a link between parenting styles and childhood obesity. “Children of authoritarian parents had five times the risk of being overweight compared to children of authoritative [a more diplomatic style] mothers,” said Dr. Kyung Rhee, a clinical instructor and research fellow at Boston University School of Medicine and [...]
Internet Affairs Fuel Divorce Rate
Internet relationships are often a source of conflict in marriage counseling. One partner feels cheated and has no problem labeling the relationship an affair. The other partner will often try to excuse his or her behavior by denying there was anything inappropriate about it; if no physical contact occurred, then it can’t really be much [...]
