As divorce rates among adults over 50 continue to climb, many adult children of long-time married parents may have difficulty dealing with feelings of bewilderment and loss – with few places to turn for advice and support.
6 Tips To Rebuild Love After an Emotional Affair
"I used to believe that a breach of trust was something that couples could bounce back from quickly but I’ve gained insight about the ways this isn’t the case."
“I used to believe that a breach of trust was something that couples could bounce back from quickly but I’ve gained insight about the ways this isn’t the case.”
How Apologizing Can Improve Your Marriage
Humbling oneself and confessing to the words or behavior that have caused your partner pain, upset, or harm can go a long way toward strengthening your marriage.
Humbling oneself and confessing to the words or behavior that have caused your partner pain, upset, or harm can go a long way toward strengthening your marriage.
How To Be Vulnerable and Assert Your Needs With Your Partner
Here are four things to consider when expressing your needs to your partner.
Here are four things to consider when expressing your needs to your partner.
How To Prevent Money Problems from Ruining Your Marriage
Admitting that there is a problem and a willingness to get help from a professional are essential to saving a marriage with financial infidelity or stress.
Admitting that there is a problem and a willingness to get help from a professional are essential to saving a marriage with financial infidelity or stress.
6 Ways to Build Trust and Intimacy with a New Partner
How can you and your partner shed the baggage from your past relationships and heal together?
How can you and your partner shed the baggage from your past relationships and heal together?
7 Steps to Forgiving Your Ex Once and For All
By Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW Forgiving others and yourself is infinitely terrifying yet necessary for achieving healthy relationships. It’s about being willing to acknowledge that you are capable of being wounded and able to risk exposing yourself. It also means that you’re stepping out of the role of a victim and taking charge of…
7 Signs Your Relationship is Healthy
It is natural to feel exposed as we allow ourselves to fall in love and it takes determination to work through each partner’s vulnerabilities and wounds.
It is natural to feel exposed as we allow ourselves to fall in love and it takes determination to work through each partner’s vulnerabilities and wounds.
12 Lessons Daughters Learn from Their Parents Divorce
— Women, and especially daughters of divorce, can put undue pressure on themselves to find the right partner, marry, and develop a happy home life. But if they possess this goal, it can present many problems. For the most part, women from divorced homes don’t have a healthy template to follow when it comes to…
10 Ways to Steer Clear of Partners Who Are Wrong for You
By Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW Many people who are in unhealthy relationships ask themselves “Why do I attract partners who are all wrong for me?” Or, “How can I be sure to recognize destructive patterns in relationships and take steps to change them?” Claire, a client who sought help with making better choices in romantic…
10 Questions Every Single Parent Must Ask a New Partner
Dating after divorce can be exciting, but when you have children it’s a risky proposition. Over and over again, I see single mom and single dad clients leap headlong into a new relationship — even move in with someone — only to face a disastrous breakup a short while afterward. While it’s normal to…
7 Ways Women Can Build Trust in Relationship With a Male Partner
One of the hardest things about trusting someone is learning to have confidence in your own judgment.
One of the hardest things about trusting someone is learning to have confidence in your own judgment.
10 Ways To Protect Your Child After Divorce
Divorce impacts children. Parents can help them to navigate this major change in their life in positive and healthy ways.
Divorce impacts children. Parents can help them to navigate this major change in their life in positive and healthy ways.
Stop Trying to Prove a Point With Your Partner
How to improve your relationship repair skills.
How to improve your relationship repair skills.
How Unplugging at Mealtimes Revived My Marriage
You have to unplug if you want to connect.
You have to unplug if you want to connect.
4 Ways to Deal With Emotional Triggers In Intimate Relationships
Get a handle on the flash points that cause conflict with your partner.
Get a handle on the flash points that cause conflict with your partner.