In a recent New York Times opinion article by Lara Bazelon, a professor at the San Francisco School of Law, argues that divorce can be a “radical act of self-love”. She details her own experience with divorce and how it ended up making a positive impact on both her own life and her relationship with … Read more
How Our Expectations of Marriage Have Changed Over Time In a recent article featured in the Atlantic, author Olga Khazan presents some interesting questions to Eli Finkel, a Professor of Psychology and the author of “The All-or-Nothing Marriage”. The author Finkel explains in his book that a “modern marriage” comes with much higher expectations than … Read more
If you are facing, or have just gone through a break-up, whether that be with your long-term partner or a spouse, it can be difficult to know how to keep moving forward. Your day-to-day life can feel like a pile of pieces that do not fit together anymore and putting them back together can feel … Read more
Discussing Money With Your Partner For a Healthier Future: 101 Fights over money are fairly common, especially as two people share more and more financial responsibility. However, fights over money, or simply not seeing eye-to-eye over finances remain one of the leading causes of divorce. Fights over money tend to get toxic pretty quickly; they … Read more
Regaining the Spark in Your Marriage The next of six articles focused on fulfillment in life talks about reviving an old friendship. In this article, we’ll be examining how we can best regain the spark in our most important “old” friendship, the one with our spouse. Relationships go through cycles and changes and that is … Read more
The second piece in our six piece series on fulfillment is a guide to navigating a party or other social situation effectively. The author of the original article lays out some nice tips about how to work your way through a party or gathering. These are great tips for navigating a party as an individual, but … Read more
You’ve probably heard the phrase “Patience is a Virtue” most of your life. Patience is something that people generally seem to struggle with. We have all lost our patience in situations that have probably caused other people problems, just as we have ourselves have likely been the victims of other peoples’ impatience. Being more in … Read more
With the new year upon us and the Holidays all but a distant memory, the family law courts will be busy with new filings. People tend to not get divorced during the holiday season, and it picks up again in January. So it would make sense for our blog to focus on traditional topics like … Read more