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Families

Practical Advice for Speaking with Teens

I remember the first time I held my son. A wave of love rushed over me, one like I had never felt before. This love carried me through the terrible twos, trying threes and the terrifying fours. Once we were over those developmental humps, I started to develop a real

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Families

Thanksgiving: Celebrating What Matters Most

In many homes, it is a tradition to go around the table just before enjoying the Thanksgiving meal, and say what you are most grateful for. Good health and relationships with loved ones usually top the list. Given the choice between good health and good relationships with the people we

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Couples Therapy

Love Types: How Personality Influences Attraction 

According to Dr. Alexander Avila, our personality type determines the people to whom we are mot attracted. It also determines which people will be most attracted to us. Essentially, when two people’s personalities are well matched, they are more likely to experience passion for one another, enjoy each other’s company,

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Connection

All Is Fair In Love and War? 

It often seems that many people feel more honor bound by certain rules and protocol of engagement when fighting a war than they feel regarding any protocols for love. We debate the ethical treatment of enemy combatants, yet the very people we profess to love the most, are often discarded recklessly and

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Connection

The Bonds that Set Us Free. Love and Attachment 

If you ask most parents about what it was like the first time they left their toddler at daycare or with a babysitter whom their child did not know well, they will tell you that it was not easy. They will probably describe their child’s response to their departure as consisting

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Connection

The Wedding to Remember

It’s the event most of us dream about at some point. We all hope that we will only have one of them in our lifetime. Whether it is a large event, a small gathering of close friends and family, or a romantic elopement, your wedding can be a beautiful moment

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Couples Therapy

The Freedom from Forgiveness

One thing we can count on in this life is that, despite our best efforts, we will hurt the ones we love and they will hurt us. Most of this hurt will be unintentional, but painful nonetheless. We all have things to learn, and we make mistakes. Therefore, heavy doses

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Relationship Advice & Tips

The Art of Loving Well

To love and to be loved is more than a nice idea that keeps greeting card companies and jewelry stores in business.  It is a biological need wired into our DNA as part of our emotional and physical survival.  The survival function of love goes far beyond reproduction of the species.  This is evident from research

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Connection

What Is Love?

For example, a relationship characterized by passion and friendship, would be predominately a relationship of romantic love.  One of my favorite answers to the age old question has been offered by the psychologist Robert Sternberg in his triangular theory of love. He asserts that there are different types of love

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