6 Tips for Letting Go of a Toxic Friendship---Gently
Question:How do you back away from an unhealthy friendship without hurting someone's feelings?Answer:Here are a few tips to help you handle a tricky, and often uncomfortable, situation in a way that minimizes hurt: 1. Make sure you really want to back away. Nobody's perfect and friends, even very good ones,

Beat the Odds Against Marital Success
A joke about marriage is traveling the email circuit:  Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.  Indeed, from first attraction until death parts us, couples can be wildly imaginative - in every possible context.  Under the influence of infatuation, we imagine that we have found our one right person.  Based on childhood fantasies and unexamined

What Barbie Means to Little Girls: The Nature-Nurture Question
For the last 30 years I have conducted research, consulted, delivered keynotes and seminars all across the country and internationally in gender communication. My signature program is "He Speaks, She Speaks: What Different Things They Say." The most asked question I receive from not only my audiences but television and

Psychologist Says Lost Love Is Really Recoverable - Can He Save My Marriage
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Recover Lost Love - Save My Marriage Previous Passion and Excitement May well Be Buried But is Not Dead North Potomac, MD 5/25/2010 -- Psychologist and writer, Dr. Jim Goldstein, subsequent to

Statement of Marriage Beliefs
It’s common for churches and ministries to have a statement of faith. Such a statement shows others what the group sees as the most vital truths, the essential agreements needed for common fellowship. Statements of faith also help those in the group to have a framework to keep them from

Arguments - escalate, or don't
In any disagreement, argument, or outright fight, you have two basic choices – you can do something that makes it worse, or you can do something that makes it better. You can escalate the issue, or you can attempt to do the opposite. In my experience, all the things that