Marriage

The therapist's job is to help client couples close one door and open another. Read more

After a brutal winter that would’ve given Ernest Shackleton pause, more than 3,700 therapists welcomed the opportunity to escape cabin fever, get out of the... Read more

Susan Johnson, developer of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, discusses what the science of love says about what couples can expect when they rebel too much... Read more

When a client has been sexually abused, it can be difficult to find the balance between creating safety and challenging old patterns. Read more

From the moment I met the Correys in my waiting room, I was baffled about why they were together. Frank was tall, good looking and suave; Donna dowdy and... Read more

Marianne Walters didn't invent a brilliant new therapeutic paradigm, publish a large and magisterial body of research, or establish her own unique school of... Read more

Esther Perel, a couples therapist whose TED talk has had more than 5 million views, believes that it’s time to challenge the mismatch between the romantic... Read more

Far from being evidence of marital bankruptcy, a woman’s affair can be a way of expressing a desire for a different self and an opportunity to breathe life... Read more

Healing from an extramarital affair is rarely a simple process, especially when embarrassing sexual secrets and incompatibilities are exposed. Read more

At least 30 percent of couples coming to therapy have fundamentally different agendas about whether to try to save the marriage. If we’re ever going to... Read more

The times and tides of 33 years of marriage Read more

Neil Clark Warren, the founder of the successful matchmaking site eHarmony, talks about what’s necessary to find a good, compatible match. Read more

A cyber relationship revives a marriage in the doldrums. Read more

While partners caught in the anger merry-go-round invariably blame the other, both typically pass the anger back and forth like a shared virus. Read more

This article first appeared in the March/April 2006 issue. Let’s face it: psychotherapy isn’t dramatic, and most therapists don’t rate high... Read more

In the rush to preserve marriages, therapists must also recognize that there are marriages that shouldn't be saved. Read more

Whether we like it or not, today's couples feel far less encumbered by the legal, social, and moral strictures of traditional marriage and its obligations... Read more

EMDR helps a young Iraq War vet and his wife emerge from the nightmare of his war experience. Read more

Given that most couples never manage to change each other very much, teaching them to forgive each other's imperfections is a vastly underutilized therapeutic... Read more

What do issues of fairness and relational justice have to do with psychotherapy? Read more

Prenuptials may seem unromantic and focused on worst-case scenarios, but they can clarify critical issues and avoid problems down the road. Read more

While the death of a marriage is undoubtedly painful, it doesn't have to be pathological. Buddhism can offer the concrete guidance to help even the most... Read more

Life in the empty nest can be humbling, exhilarating, and occasionally, just plain weird. Read more

The phrase "in sickness and in health" is a hallowed part of our marriage vows for good reason. As human beings vulnerable to a wide variety of diseases and... Read more

And yet, I wondered, if we didn't have a theory of adult love and emotion, how could we truly understand what marriage was all about, let alone help couples... Read more

Just because a couple is legally divorced doesn't mean that they're not emotionally still married. Read more

How to cool down the temperature with couples facing the crisis of infidelity. Read more

Some intriguing findings refute popular myths about marriage. Read more

When author Frank Pittman became a father, he discovered that the childhood absence of his own father left him with no idea how to relate to his kids. This... Read more