Divorce Is Never Easy

There’s no other way of expressing how painful divorce is when it happens to you. Reality never hit me as hard as it did once I moved out of the house I grew up in. As we moved some of our furniture into the cheap, rinky-dink apartment my mom hastily found in the adjacent town,…

What a 15 Minute Conversation Means for Your Relationship

In 1994, American psychologist Dr. John Gottman reached out to 151 couples in long term marriages for a series of three 15 minute interviews. The interviews consisted of talking about the day they were having, talking about a problem area, and talking about a pleasant part of their marriage. During the course of the conversation,…