Welcome to my Blog
Thank you for stopping by. This space is where I share research, reflections, and practical tools drawn from my experience as a marriage and family therapist.
Are you a couple looking for clarity? A professional curious about the science of relationships? Or simply someone interested in how love and resilience work? I’m glad you’ve found your way here. I can help with that.
Each post is written with one goal in mind: to help you better understand yourself, your partner, and the hidden dynamics that shape human connection.
Grab a coffee (or a notebook), explore what speaks to you, and take what’s useful back into your life and relationships. And if a post sparks a question, or makes you realize you could use more support, I’d love to hear from you.
Be Well, Stay Kind, and Godspeed.
~Daniel
P.S.
Feel free to explore the categories below to find past blog posts on the topics that matter most to you. If you’re curious about attachment, navigating conflict, or strengthening intimacy, these archives are a great way to dive deeper into the research and insights that I’ve been sharing for years.
- Attachment Issues
- Coronavirus
- Couples Therapy
- Extramarital Affairs
- Family Life and Parenting
- How to Fight Fair
- Inlaws and Extended Families
- Intercultural Relationships
- Marriage and Mental Health
- Married Life & Intimate Relationships
- Neurodiverse Couples
- Separation & Divorce
- Signs of Trouble
- Social Media and Relationships
- What Happy Couples Know
How to nudge a narcissist toward empathy…
If we encourage narcissists to consider the situation from their life-partner’s point of view, are they are likely to respond in a much more considerate or sympathetic way?
Yup… Research suggests that narcissists just need a nudge…
Gimme a break…
How much solitude is too much?
The relationship between being alone and feeling lonely is quite complicated.
This study emphasizes that your mileage may definitely vary. Solitude does not reliably provoke loneliness.
Let’s dish on Avoidant Attachment…
Adults with an Avoidant Attachment Style fear rejection… and attempt to deactivate the attachment system by limiting closeness.
Avoidant humans experience an ongoing struggle between deep attachment needs… and deep attachment defenses…
7 Rules for personal happiness that may also save our planet… Taylor’s Version…
My bones tell me that 2024 is going to be one hell of a ride.
And I want to be right and ready for my family, clients, friends, and colleagues in the research community, and the community of clinical practice.
What Game of Thrones is teaching us about loneliness…
Fascinating new research explains how Game of Throne fans have a form of cinema verite running their nervous systems…
You’re so sweet! How the sexy notion of Embodied Cognition is changing neuroscience…
Are you annoyed yet by the idea that humans with a sweet tooth have a bubbly, helpful soul?
A better question is why is the notion of Embodied Cognition so alluring to neuroscience?
The way out of meaningless suffering is not easy…
When I was 17, I went to prison… and I came out differently 6 hours later…
Why is AI still dumb as a rock when it comes to understanding human motivation?
AI is a wonderful source of pattern recognition computing power, but how did AI do in a face to face contest with an 11 month old infant to understand human motivation?
Let’s say the researchers were underwhelmed…
What is male confession bias? Paradise by the Dashboard light?…or I’m Confessin’ that I love you?
Researchers believe that it’s a universal truth that men say “I love you” first in a romantic relationship.
But the study only looked at Western countries. How can they claim this tendency is universal?
Epic elder wisdom from 40,000 years of married life…
40,000 years of happily married life has been distilled like maple syrup into 5 sweet truths about enduring love and intimacy…what are they?
4 Quaint ideas for a happy marriage that have merit
New research has discovered 4 quaint ideas about marriage and family life that can magnify human happiness , and minimize suffering.
What are they?
How did the US government save marriages with pictures of puppies?
Military Families deal with great stress around deployment.
So how did the Defense Department use pictures of puppies to heal marriages?