You may be thinking, “What do I do if I love my partner, but I’m no longer in love with him (or her)?” Perhaps you no longer feel the same excitement and passion that you did early on in the relationship. In over 40 years of research with over 3000 couples,...
Michael Brown, MSC, LMFT You feel hurt, angry, frustrated, righteously indignant, or jealous and you want to reach out to (or strike out at) your spouse or partner, but they are not there. So, you send them an angry or sarcastic text message. Thus begins the text war,...
The Importance of Repair in Relationships Michael Brown, MSC, LMFT Relationships are fertile grounds for misunderstandings. The chances that either person in a relationship is attentive and emotionally available at any given time are statistically about the same as...
How familiar are you with your spouse’s inner world? What do you know about your partner’s history, concerns, preferences, worries, and the current world? How do you update your knowledge of your spouse’s inner world? In more than four decades of...
