September 15, 2009

This is not the first time I have come across this type of interesting research results. Living Together First Can Spoil Marriage Read more

September 14, 2009

I need some help explaining something to my husband. Ever since we have gotten married, we have been close in location with a lot of his family. I left most of my family and friends back home. Due to the close proximity, we were going to church with his parents, having Sunday lunch at his parents, and sometimes visiting during the week. This got to be way too much for me. I told him that although I loved his family,... Read more

September 11, 2009

My wife and I are dealing with her losing faith in her testimony. It is a classic rubberband type situation. She joined the church as a teenager and I have been in the church since I was six years old. I served an LDS mission and we are sealed in the temple. We have five beautiful children (one of which is in the military and married in the temple). My wife put up with my dysfunction for 18 years (... Read more

September 10, 2009

I came across your blog, and would first of all like to thank you for what you do. I think that there are many members out there who are in need of help and either too scared to come forward or just do not know where to start. It has been too long since I came forward and I blame that on embarrassment and pride. How do I change? Over the past four years I have been treated for post... Read more

September 9, 2009

I’ve been trying your suggestions. I’ve been completely shut down. She is happy the way things are. Won’t do counseling. She says this is my problem not hers. I appreciated your thoughts and suggestions. Sometimes, though, there is no hope — and I think that is where I am. It is abysmally sad for me when a spouse states the “this is your problem, not mine” copout. Ideally in any healthy relationship, problems are seen as affecting the entire system... Read more

September 8, 2009

I really like how you’ve set up your blog, and how much you can help others outside of a sit down, formal meeting. I wish I could get one of my best friends, and her husband to meet with you in person. Their marriage has been falling apart since after the ceremony (her words, not mine) and now she’s been putting so much emotion into trying to conceive and have a child (has one child, almost 3, and has had... Read more

September 5, 2009

The following is taken from The Neuroscience of Fear by MaryAnne Banich Massey, EdS found in Family Therapy Magazine January/February 2009. Faced with extreme danger, our bodies and minds go into survival mode without even thinking about it. In fact, we don’t think we react. Physiologically we are mobilized for action. The physical response we have to fear is just the beginning. According to research, nothing makes more of an impression on our brains than fear. We have all heard... Read more

September 4, 2009

I was very interested in reading the September 2009 Ensign article titled “Fidelity in Marriage.” I have the tendency to be critical of my wife’s many friendships (not of the opposite sex) and to feel that her choices to invest much more time and energy in other relationships have been somewhat unfaithful and have led to neglect of our relationship. At the same time, I realize that these negative, critical thoughts of mine are also somewhat unfaithful to her and... Read more

September 3, 2009

Interesting articles I came across: When Sex Leaves the Marriage Healthy Love Life Leads to Well-Being Read more

September 2, 2009

Regrettably, I had sex before I was married. However, I have never once compared my intimate relationship with my wife to my pre-marital experiences, not even in my mind. We have still very much discovered the joy of sex together, simply because our emotional closeness is so very different to pre-marital intimacy, where it was simply a physical act. We have discovered what pleases each other, and our physical relationship is unique to us. We have tried many different things,... Read more

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