Recently me and my boyfriend started college. On the first day he suddenly changed. He didn’t even wait for me but seemed to have more time for my friend. We’ve only been there for two days and yet I feel...
Category - Relationships Etc.
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Ask Lisa: My boyfriend stopped communicating
I am a 21 year old girl and I’m a student. My boyfriend is 23 and is also a student and we’ve been together for nearly 6 months now. I am his first ever relationship and he lives with his parents. At the...
Key Insights | Parenting : Keeping an Emotionally Healthy Attitude About Sports
The National Alliance for Sports recently reported that “70% of children drop out of organized sports by age 13.” The reasons cited include injuries from overuse (specializing in one sport at too young of...
Key Insights | Ask Lisa : My boyfriend has been abusive, has a drinking problem but is getting help. Should I stay?
My boyfriend and I have been dating for 9 months. We were long distance for the past four months while I get my degree abroad. We were both excited to see each other once I returned. Due to the fact he lives on a...
A Husband Speaks: A Tale of Depression and Love
A husband writes anonymously about the struggles around his wife’s sudden onset of mental illness. In the summer of 2009, my wife and I were making plans for having our first child. We started dating as high...
How Do You Love?
Rick Hanson, PhD looks at the practice of loving “freely” and how to do that. One of the keys is not being controlled by your internal negative reactions. —– Love Freely In my early 20’s, I...
Rick Hanson, PhD
Ask Lisa: My boyfriend is drifting away from me
My boyfriend is spending less and less time with me and I don’t know why. We are about to hit our 5 year mark, getting together when I was 16 and he was 17 and now we’re 21 and 22. We do not make enough...
Key Insights | A Holiday Message to Parents Everywhere : What Your Kids Want the Most
I noticed initially this was an ad for Ikea but quickly forgot all about that as I became transfixed with this experiment involving Spanish children and their parents captured on video, writing letters to the...
A Story About Breakup Etiquette
A real story submitted by a reader who shares her creative response to an ex-boyfriend’s plan to breakup with her. He likely thought his setup would stifle a potential emotional response from her…boy was he...
Calling Out for a Circle of Love
There are no treatment options left. This is what an old high school friend of mine and her 19 year old daughter Randi heard from doctors this past April. Randi’s 3 year battle was over. Nearing the end of high...
