Julia Cole knows all about infidelity – in 25 years of counselling couples about their affairs, she has seen it all.

Picture it. You step into the elevator and your boss is standing there. He asks your opinion on a big deal your company is putting together – something about weighing short-term payoffs versus potential long-term gains – and you have less than a minute to wow him with your thinking, reasoning, and decision making skills

A few weeks ago, Pamela Paul wrote an article that appeared in the New York Times called, “The Un-divorced.” The article covered the topic of what I call the “quiet trend” of people who divorce emotionally but not legally. I refer to these trends “quiet” because the census bureau can’t track these numbers as easily as they can the filings of marriage certificates and divorce decrees. These trends go untalked about and, until now, largely unnoticed for years

According to recent research, your emotional bond with your pet dog or cat changes over time.

Michelle Hather and her three sons communicate increasingly in a silent world of emails, tweets and texts. Will her boys forget how to speak altogether, she wonders

Last week, a federal judge in California decided that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry, striking down Proposition 8, the California ballot measure that banned same-sex unions. Over the next few blog entries I will be including some of the evidence that was presented at trial and discussing it in the context of social science research on couples and families. U.S

Headlines about STDs among older people skirt one of the last taboos – that it’s not just the young who have fulfilling sex lives Over the last few months there have been numerous headlines about the sex lives of the over-50s – almost all negative.

Typical scenarios- do you recognize yourself? A client called me today in despair. She’s opened a small dress store and was at a networking meeting talking with a business associate, who is also in the retail industry

I have a very close relationship with my grandma. She wants me to call her twice a day, but I feel exhausted constantly having to account for what I am doing. I often feel mad – why is a 10-minute call becoming such a problem for me?

According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists , about 15-20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, usually within the first 13 weeks of pregnancy. For the woman who has miscarried, this can be a difficult time emotionally, both in coping with the loss and thinking about its impact on her marriage and her ability to conceive in the future

Oprah Winfrey has done it again. Last week’s show with Mo’nique’s brother, or perhaps I should say with her family of origin, has continued to linger in my thoughts. As astutely as any family therapist I know (though none would do this on TV), she made space for Mo’nique’s brother, their parents and younger brother, and asked questions, listened, empathized, confronted, challenged, affirmed, and  tried to teach — and she did all of this respectfully, while also remaining loyal to her  hard-earned knowledge on the subject, to Mo’nique, and to the millions of incest survivors in her TV audience.  I’m one of them

I recently asked author Katherine Rosman a little more about her book, If You Knew Suzy: A Mother, A Daughter, a Reporter’s Notebook , which PT excerpted . After her mother died of cancer at age 60, Rosman, a reporter for the The Wall Street Journal , explored several unfamiliar corners of her mother’s world.

Before I start this post, I will state for the record that I am still madly attracted to my spouse. I wouldn't change the many blessings we've had heaped upon us when so many have so little. This goes from our home to our children to our jobs to our health

       Absolutely, if you have been in a “relationship” with this girl for at least three months plus.

Angie opens up to Betty about Brad Pitt, work, love, life and their children. “You know, you can’t really train to jump off a building,” Angelina Jolie advises