The War on Family
The scale of marital breakdown in the West since 1960 has no historical precedent,” says historian Lawrence Stone. In 40 short years, the marriage rate is down by one-third, the divorce rate has doubled, the birth rate is one half,…
The World in My Eyes
Your Children Are Adults? Don’t Abdicate Responsibility
Don’t ignore Your Resentment
Verbal Abuse Hurts
Don't Put Me Down! When I first Wrote Back From the Looking Glass - 13 Steps to a Peaceful Home (now in its 11th edition), it was much shorter and called "Don't Put Me Down!" I think the issue of domestic…
Intro – Handling Verbal Abuse
Earning Respect Dashboard Do You Command Respect? The person who wrote, "Sticks & stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me." obviously never lived with verbal abuse. Quite simply, words can and do hurt." For years, I…
Companionship: A Two Way Street
"They never talk to me", is the most common complaint I hear from codependents about their marriage partner. I find this especially sad, because this person rarely sees how deep and tragic their wound. This subject is so sad, I…
“You Said, WHAT?”
How Emotional Baggage From Your Past is Affecting Your Marriage Today Emotional Baggage Begins with Emotionally charged Events I remember a scene from my mothers 50th birthday, when an old friend of my mother, famous for being both very rich and very rude,…