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
The science of meaningful suffering: 3 resilient traits to handle failure and defeat
Setbacks and failure are common place in historically uncertain times. Here are 5 behaviors to avoid and 3 behaviors to learn if you want to manage disappointments, setbacks, and failure with resilience.
What is relationship contingent self-esteem?
What happens when your entire identity and self-esteem is complete subsumed into how well your relationship is going?
What is relationship contingent self-esteem?
How dark emotions shape modern success…
New cross-cultural research suggests that more humans are harnessing ostensibly negative emotions such as anger and anxiety as fuel toward fulfilling their dreams.
How are they doing that?
New research from Greece: My 12 big, fat, beautiful relationship challenges…
New research from Greece tries to answer the question what are the top 12 challenges to enduring intimacy?
Can burnout be healed by a satisfying relationship? New research from Russia, with love…
New research from Russia claims that the happier you are in your intimate relationship, the more resilient you are to suffering from workplace burnout… but only if you’re a man?
7 ways your depressed husband shows up in couples therapy
Here is an interesting idea.
Could it be possible that your depressed husband and your couples therapist, (regardless of gender) are naturally at odds with one another?