Our society puts a lot of focus on the wedding day. Many couples spend countless hours on wedding preparation considering where they will marry, what color the flowers will be, tasting food, contemplating wedding...
Category - Relationships
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Sexless Relationships and the Layered Cake Metaphor
Alysha Jeney, LMFT, looks at a lack of sex in relationships, the layered cake metaphor and what sex positivity looks like. A lack of sex in relationships can vary from trust issues to health related dysfunction...
Alysha Jeney, MA, LMFT
His Desire for His Wife To Be Happy Got Complicated
Richard Nicastro, PhD, through the eyes of “Nina,” explores what it can look like when protective love turns into hopeless frustration. — If you’re a woman in a committed relationship, I’d like you...
Richard Nicastro, PhD
Valentines Day: Is it Time to Refocus on Your Relationship?
Many relationships have taken a beating over the past months. The preoccupation and distraction of COVID has had consequential impact on couples everywhere as their relationships have slipped out of focus. As a...
Goodbye 2020: Top LoveAndLifeToolbox.com Tips for Pandemic Resilience
With the collective challenges of 2020, my annual “Best of Emotional and Relationship Health” featured post to ring in the New Year is a little different. Typically I share my most popular content of the...
Be Humble. Don’t Despair.
These are unprecedented times and we as a nation are being pulled tightly. Tensions have been exceedingly high as we waited for election results and it continues since the election was called. For months I’ve...
Codependency is an Attachment Issue
Aude Castagna, MFT explores the reasons people can be compulsive pleasers and caretakers, even in the face of toxic behaviors and to their own detriment. She offers some guidance around how to start the process of...
Now is the Time to Strengthen Your Marriage, Here are 14 Ways
This is a very hard time; our emotional health and physical well-being are being challenged in pandemic life. We are trying to figure out how to be safe, care for our children and for many, assure even basic survival...
Couples: Virus Fear vs. Virus Fatigue
As people debate masks, social distancing and other safety precautions against COVID, the different levels of comfort has shown up in relationships. One person is more cautious than the other leading to varying ideas...
Lessons from Writing Letters to Strangers
Elise Hu, NPR correspondent and Millennial (the “loneliest generation”), shares her need for connection during the global pandemic. In her worry and loneliness she wrote letters to 50 strangers across...
