Five Ways to Recognize a Toxic Family Toxic families are not that unusual. If you were brought up in a toxic family you probably don’t know it. Your experience of what everyone else sees as a toxic family seems normal to you, because you know nothing else. Part of growing up in a toxic family [...]
Is it Okay to Fight in Front of the Kids? How often have you heard the saying that you shouldn’t fight in front of the kids? You’ve probably said that you shouldn’t fight in front of the kids to your spouse when things have gotten heated up. Maybe you have read parenting books that tell [...]
After a heated argument about being late for dinner, thirty-four year Gemma threw insults at her forty year old husband Jordan who told her that she was overreacting. She stormed out of the house when she heard that he had been finishing an online checkers game with a manufacturing client in Russia. Inflamed at being so disrespected and getting no apology to boot, Gemma drove to her mother’s home with a rush of indignant adrenalin propelling her tired body. Her outrage spilled out before her mother Gloria could make sense of the latest problem that Gemma and Jordan cycled though in their stormy three year childless marriage.
Relationship Advice Tips by Dr. Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D. Trevor has empathy for his son but not his wife Watching his wife struggle with their defiant three year old son made Trevor feel concerned for the boy. He imagined that Nancy would lose her cool and get rough with little Peyton and do some damage. Trevor’s [...]
Relationship Advice Tips by Dr. Jeanette Raymond How you listen and when you respond makes all the difference Self-disclosure is one of the key ingredients of satisfying relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Feb 2011 Self-disclosure increases when you feel that your friends and loved ones make you feel that you [...]
Relationship Advice Tips By Dr. Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D. Just the thought of family tensions, arguments and disappointments can stress you out, fill you with dread and cause fatigue. Anticipating hurt and misunderstandings while at the same time hoping it will be different this time sets you up for a roller coaster of emotions that make [...]
