Have you ever noticed that some couples can quickly move from being fired up with romantic passion for their partner to acting like a bully-boss who just wants to passionately fire them like a needless employee. It’s no won...

Have you ever wondered why traditional holidays are so stressful? Instead of being called the ‘most wonderful time of the year,’ it seems that we should rename it to be more accurately called the ‘most difficult time of the ye...

After 15 years of the American phenomenon known as “Promise Keepers,” it’s worth asking, “Have men changed?” That’s more than a decade of rallying men to the cry, “a man’s man is a godly man.&rdquo...

I don’t get it. I’ve owned up to my mistake and apologized. Why can’t my wife just forgive me, get over it and let things get back to normal?” It would be one thing if Tom’s “mistake” was forgetting to p...

The destruction of a man in mid-life is, in fact, not a singular event—although it is often that last egregious act that is found out and publicized to the man’s entire world that becomes the focus of the shock and awe of a life flus...

Few issues in women are more hidden than sexual addiction. Depression, anxiety, even childhood sexual abuse and eating disorders receive more attention. Neither the clinical field nor the recovery community has directed much attention to this se...

A divorcee lamented, “If only I had spoken to my husband about his abuse of me in the first five years of our marriage, we’d still be together. I didn’t know that I was allowed to speak up. He would have listened back then.&rdq...

*Resources for Rural Women in Abusive Relationships* Bosch, K. & Schumm, W. R. (2004). Accessibility to old_resources: Helping rural women in abusive partner relationships become free from abuse. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 30, 357...