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Happiness At Home: Skills For Making Your Marriage Thrive
Any marriage counselor will tell you that one of the most common problems observed when couples come for help is poor communication skills. People get into trouble in their [...]
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The Hard Road To A Happy Marriage
Did you know that, statistically, half of all divorces take place in the first seven years of marriage? Or put another way, if couples with children are going to divorce, [...]
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19Dec
Do 50% Of Marriages End In Divorce?
I had a conversation with a client recently about that oft-repeated statistic that 50% of marriage end in divorce. I corrected the client with the information that I have, [...]
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Happiness At Home Newsletter: You Can Build Your People Skills
How would you like to get along even better with others in your personal relationships and in the workplace? Getting along well with people sounds kind of general and is [...]
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Making Change Happen
If you’ve ever resolved to be a “better” parent or partner (and who hasn’t?) you may have felt a moment or two of frustration over your lack of [...]
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“Fighting Fair”?
All couples disagree at some point. It’s not realistic to think that we’ll see eye-to-eye on everything over the course of a long marriage. Disagreeing isn’t the issue; how [...]
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Is It Wrong To Ask For Help?
We live in a culture that values independence. There’s a common belief that everyone can and should take care of themselves alone, pull themselves up by their bootstraps and [...]
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Most Of Us Hear, Not All Of Us Listen
I use a lot of skills in my work as a psychotherapist in Oakville. Some of these skills are ones that I teach my clients, too, and active listening is probably one of the [...]
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A Listening Experiment
Have you ever given much thought to how much talking you do? I try to be very aware of how much I talk — occupational hazard, I suppose — and I try to [...]
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When Parents Clash
What do you do when you and your partner have differences in parenting styles? It’s a surprisingly common dilemma. My experience is that, if we look at parenting as a [...]
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