Couples typically don’t structure their lives around a regular planning meeting, one where they deal with all the accrued issues around the decisions and logistics they are responsible for in their daily lives. However, this type of meeting is imperative to have on a regular basis – ideally weekly – particularly for long-term relationships. The frequency and duration of these …
As we grow up, we automatically take up specific notions about what it looks like to raise a child. We get these ideas from our own childhood, from our experiences with our parents and caregivers. There’s no intellectual, one-size-fits-all solution for how to parent a child, and even if there was one, we wouldn’t likely agree with it. We have …
A lot of people have a very difficult time expressing and bringing up the impacts of another person’s behaviors. It’s hard to know what’s a fair thing to ask for from your partner. Therefore, I want to provide you with a bit of a road map for how to deal with compulsive behaviors that are having a negative effect on …
I recently listened to an episode of the Tim Ferris Show called “Ramit Sethi — How to Play Offense with Money, Plan Bucket Lists, Build a Rich Life with Your Partner, and Take a Powerful $100 Challenge”. I want to expand on this conversation and spend a little bit of time talking about how couples can communicate about finances in …
Let’s address an age-old question that I’m frequently asked from clients: how do I get people to do what I want them to do? Whether it’s our child, our coworker, friends, or partners, it’s something we have to learn over the course of our lifetime. Now, some people don’t see it that way and choose not to—but it’s something that …
This subject will open some generalizations, as it’s difficult to avoid considering how many successful ways there are to parent. So please excuse any insidious, heteronormative generalizations that may creep into the discussion. My intent here is to open up a conversation around how to really hold the process of becoming a good partner to a mother. As a partner …
A partner, by definition is: “a pair of people engaged together in the same activity”. Yet I was personally avoiding being in an INTERDEPENDENT partnership because I was fearful that it would take away my autonomy. My ‘stuff’: my private time, my agendas, my personal activities, my peace would no longer exist.
