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7 Things You Can Do When your Partner Isn’t Being Supportive

Emotions, Family, Marriage, Relationships, Remarriage, Therapist / Meredith Keller

Do you have an unsupportive partner? Has one of these scenarios happened to you? You’re hurt by something your sister did but your partner doesn’t seem to care. Something major just happened and your partner seems distracted and disinterested as you’re telling them. You’re angry about how you were treated at the bank and your partner tells you it’s not a big deal. You’re worried […]

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My Mother Turns 75 This Month: How the family plans to express our appreciation of her

Events, Family, Giving Thanks, Holidays, Relationships / Couples

My brother, sister and I are throwing a party in her honor. As fun as it will be connecting with family and friends, there’s one aspect of her birthday celebration I’m most excited about: a scrapbook of notes from those who love her and photos of them with her. When I realized this scrapbook is

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Does Intimacy Mean Sharing Absolutely Everything?

Emotions, Relationships / Couples

What is Intimacy? Is it tender and emotional sex each and every time? Is it sharing everything with one another? Is it constant closeness and togetherness? Popular belief says that those things make up intimacy, but that’s misleading AND unrealistic in a long-term partnership. For how could we possibly be together with our partner all

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Save Yourself From An Argument On Your Next Vacation

Family, Relationships / Couples

Imagine: you and your partner have planned a trip to a great summer destination. You each pack your own bags, arrive together and unpack when you get to your room. Your bag contains: books, boardgames, movies, candles, an eye mask, massage oil, and an assortment of teas. You’ve been looking forward to lazy days lounging

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Hurt By Hearsay? How Therapy Rebuilds Your Sense of Safety

Emotions, Relationships, Therapist, Uncategorized / Couples

Gossip – sometimes it seems we’re surrounded by it. We hear it all the time. It glares at us from nearly every grocery store headline. Have you seen so-and-so’s new haircut? What was he/she thinking? And what about those two? Can you believe they did that?! On the surface, gossiping can seem like harmless, idle

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Words Are Crucial: How Speaking Your Unfiltered Thoughts Could Be Impacting Your Relationship

Emotions, Relationships / Couples

Words have so much power. Depending on how we use them, words have the power to inspire, to hurt, or to heal. Think about what you say to your partner. Are you saying words that support and inspire your spouse? Are you using words that soothe and heal him/her? Or are you using words that

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Get a Grip: How to Keep Emotional Reactions From Hurting Your Marriage

Emotions, Events, Relationships, Uncategorized / Couples

Your emotions have a huge impact on your marriage. Whether your reaction to these emotions is to show them on the outside OR to keep outside of your awareness, your reaction might be driving your partner away. After many times of reacting similarly, a pattern sets in. This pattern may be a big contributor to

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What Makes Your Therapist Tick?

Emotions, Relationships, Therapist, Uncategorized / Couples

When people learn that I’m a therapist, they often ask me how I can spend all day listening to other people’s problems. Many people imagine that my job is very difficult and draining. For some people it might be, but it’s not that way for me. I do this job because I love it. I

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Containing Our Emotions: When It’s Helpful To Hold Back

Emotions, Relationships, Uncategorized / Couples

I usually write about allowing our feelings to be felt, to be talked about, and to be shown. Today, I’ve been thinking about the opposite: containing them – and how to know when to do what! Containing our emotions means to hold back how we’re feeling from someone else. It’s what we do when we

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Stopping Triangulation: How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Involving a Third Person in Your Problems

Emotions, Relationships, Therapist, Uncategorized / Couples

Most of my clients have some kind of challenge in their relationships with others. The struggle may be with a spouse, a friend, a family member, a co-worker, a child, a neighbor, or a landlord. No matter who the struggle is with, we often discuss what someone else said or did and how my client

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7 Things You Can Do When your Partner Isn’t Being Supportive

My Mother Turns 75 This Month: How the family plans to express our appreciation of her

Does Intimacy Mean Sharing Absolutely Everything?

Save Yourself From An Argument On Your Next Vacation

Hurt By Hearsay? How Therapy Rebuilds Your Sense of Safety

Words Are Crucial: How Speaking Your Unfiltered Thoughts Could Be Impacting Your Relationship

Get a Grip: How to Keep Emotional Reactions From Hurting Your Marriage

What Makes Your Therapist Tick?

Containing Our Emotions: When It’s Helpful To Hold Back

Stopping Triangulation: How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Involving a Third Person in Your Problems

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