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When Parents Clash

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, couples, happy families, keeping kids out of trouble, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, stress

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 [...]

How To Keep Your Marriage Strong

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, couples, happy families, marriage

It’s not uncommon that I meet with couples who have come to counselling, but are a little unsure if they should even be there, since they don’t fight, they don’t storm out on [...]

Happiness At Home: Resolving Conflicts

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, couples, happy families, marriage, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, stress, teens

Every relationship has conflicts. In some relationships, conflict is a serious problem; in others, differences seem to be resolved without creating a major incident. Think [...]

Improving Your Sex Life

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, couples, marriage

Men and women tend to think about sex differently. This may seem laughably obvious, but in my work providing couple counselling, I often see clients in which the spouses [...]

Ex Marks the Spot

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, couples, happy families, marriage, parenting

The reality is, a lot of us will have to deal with an ex of our own. When we share children with this ex, things can get pretty dicey. It is critical as a parent that you [...]

A Shift in Family Schedules

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, couples, happy families, marriage, parenting

How do you make your family calendar “work”? We have a bit of an unusual arrangement in our house in that my husband works evenings and weekends, so we’ve [...]

Men At Work

Andrea Ramsay Speers

chores, communication, couples, happy families, marriage, parenting

A lot of ink has been devoted to the work/life balance for moms, but are dads feeling the crunch too? I think they might be. While programs such as paternity leave have [...]

Is It Possible to Consciously Uncouple?

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, couples, happy families, marriage

I’ll admit I was a bit sad to hear about Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s break-up. I always feel a little sad when I hear that someone’s marriage is over. I don’t know [...]

Marriage Advice

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, couples, gratitude, happy families, marriage, parenting

I do a lot of work with parents, that’s true, but I also see a lot of couples looking for marriage advice. Sometimes people come to see me specifically because their marriage [...]