Go Away, Come Closer: Unable to Stop the Cycle of Arguments

Why is it that we fall in love with our dream-mate and then spend the next forty years yelling, fighting and screaming as if we had married our worst enemy? It makes no sense. It makes even less sense to get a divorce and marry someone just like the first

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Shared by Aaron Karmin, LCPC, Contributing Blogger March 4, 2020

Standards and Expectations: Are You Good Enough

The media is full of experts giving people advice. They tell us how to be good parents, loving spouses, supportive friends. The press is full of tips for handling our aging parents, our difficult bosses. The problem is most of it doesn’t work. There are many reasons why superficial, impersonal

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Shared by Aaron Karmin, LCPC, Contributing Blogger October 8, 2019