Five Reasons Why Second Marriages Fail at a High Rate

For some time the divorce rate in the USA for first marriages has held at about 50%.  This is a national tragedy.  This statistic also means that many people have subsequent marriages. Common sense suggests that someone who remarries is older, wiser, more mature, has learned from their mistakes, and knows better what they want and need in a [...]

2020-02-18T15:53:15-07:00May 18th, 2018|Categories: Adult, Couples, Family, Marriage|Comments Off on Five Reasons Why Second Marriages Fail at a High Rate

Are We Really More Communicative?

The amount of on-going communication today is staggering. With email, the cell phone, texting, and social networking etc., the number of messages sent each day today is probably more than 100 times the number of messages sent per day compared to 20 years ago.  With all this additional communication, are we as a society any better off? I don’t [...]

2020-02-18T17:25:00-07:00October 18th, 2016|Categories: Children, Couples, Family, Mental Health, Student, Teens|Comments Off on Are We Really More Communicative?

Forming Our Relationships Backwards

The divorce rate in the U.S. continues to hover around 50 percent and the dissolution incidence when one or both of the parties have been previously married is about 65 percent.  This is a national travesty.  The amount of emotional angst and money spent, not to mention the extent of trauma brought to the involved children, is immeasurable. Finding [...]

2020-02-17T17:32:12-07:00August 24th, 2015|Categories: Couples|Comments Off on Forming Our Relationships Backwards