How to Treat Your Valentine in New York: Pandemic Version
Just because your dinner reservations may be canceled doesn’t mean that connecting with your love is canceled too! Taking some time to recharge your romantic life may help reestablish some normalcy and comfort for both of you. If you’d like to do something special for your spouse or partner but don’t know where to get started because of the pandemic, check out these ideas to treat your other half to a beautiful Valentine’s Day – no Hallmark cards required.
Satisfying Love Relationships: How to Build a Secure Attachment
Attachment theory is a psychological model that describes how people develop emotional attachments to others. For example, when you feel protected, seen, and supported by your partner, you have a secure attachment. How we connect with our partners is part of what helps us feel satisfied in our marriages and love relationships. What is secure […]
Pros and Cons of Open Relationships in New York
Are you and your better half, as fabulous New York City lovebirds, considering dabbling in the tantalizing world of open relationships? Before you dive into the pool of romantic possibilities, let’s splash around a bit and explore the challenges and quirks that come with stepping outside the boundaries of monogamy. As a couples therapist with […]
Walking on Eggshells? The Disorganized Attachment Style
What is a disorganized attachment style? How does it start? What can you and your partner or spouse do in your marriage or love relationship to heal and create a more satisfying relationship so that neither of you feel that you have to “walk on eggshells” around each other? First, we need to be compassionate […]
10 Common Marriage Reconciliation Mistakes to Avoid After Infidelity
Before, you had a marriage you thought you understood. Imperfect, certainly, but yours. You knew your partner’s habits, their tells, the rhythm of your shared life. You had plans for next summer, conversations about retirement, inside jokes that no one else would find funny. The foundation felt solid enough that you rarely thought about it. […]
How to Parent When You Both Work Full-Time
Many male-female couples start out intending to share parenting duties 50/50. However, they can quickly fall into old societal gender roles once the baby arrives, where the woman takes on much more than the man despite both spouses having full-time careers. What can couples do to ensure parenting and household duties don’t end up destroying their intimacy, and even their marriage?
What Helps You Deal With Stress?
View fullsize Can you turn to your partner when you are feeling sad, anxious, or bad? Your answer matters. Hint: they Probably Sleeps Next to You Each Night When you feel safe with your partner or spouse in your marriage or love relationship, your ability to cope with challenging situations is significantly strengthened. Despite […]
Are You There for Your Partner or Spouse?
Are You Available in Your Marriage or Relationship? When you’re aware of where you are, and can focus on the present, your partner or spouse is much more likely to feel that you’re available to them. In this “state,” you’re much more likely to be open and creative with possibilities together in your relationship. You […]
What To Do If You Are Living In A Loveless Marriage
Two people enter into a marriage because of love, but not everyone stays that way, especially after a few years of being together. Monotony and predictability can start to impact the relationship and many people find themselves stuck in a loveless marriage. But why do people stick with this kind of situation? Are you curious about how to live in a loveless marriage?
7 New Year’s Ways to Improve Your Marriage
You’ve heard the typical New Year’s resolutions before: lose weight, learn to play an instrument, save more money! These resolutions are all well and good, but they rarely last through the whole year. Most people will start strong for the first 2-4 weeks of the year but grow tired of forming new habits and let their resolutions fall to the wayside. But what if your resolution is a bit more…personal? What if you resolve to strengthen your relationship with your significant other? You don’t want to let that fall to the wayside after 2-4 weeks!
