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How to Be Vulnerable and Assertive with Your Partner

How to Be Vulnerable and Assertive with Your Partner

By Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW Being vulnerable means being authentic and being able to risk expressing your thoughts, feelings, and wishes without fear of rejection. It means you are in control of yourself, not the relationship. Many people complain that they aren’t...

8 Secrets to Success in a Second Marriage

8 Secrets to Success in a Second Marriage

By Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW Recently my husband and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary and we have a deep commitment to our second marriage. At our celebration several friends asked me how we’ve stayed together over two decades. Although there are many...

Teenagers Taking Sides: A Painful Consequence of Divorce

Teenagers Taking Sides: A Painful Consequence of Divorce

By Rosalind Sedacca, CCT I received the following question which poses many challenges related to divorce and parenting. While there is never a one-size-fits-all answer to relationship questions, I’m sharing my response with you as a perspective worth considering....

Take Control of Your Finances After Divorce

Take Control of Your Finances After Divorce

For many people, divorce can mean financial devastation or hardship.  You may lose half of what you have saved over the course of your adult life, and go into substantial debt paying lawyer’s fees and other expenses.  Yet for as messy and painful as divorce can be, it...

12 Lessons Daughters Learn From Their Parents’ Divorce

12 Lessons Daughters Learn From Their Parents’ Divorce

By Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW Women, and especially daughters of divorce, can put undue pressure on themselves to find the right partner, marry, and develop a happy home life. But if they possess this goal, it can present many problems. For the most part, women from...

How My Past Relationships Led Me To The Love Of My Life

How My Past Relationships Led Me To The Love Of My Life

I don't think love is something you can plan or create. Love for my husband came unexpectedly, and when I had stopped looking for love. It happened when I finally had come to love myself again, and opened my heart to the possibility of finding that one person who...

Five Ways to Encourage Emotional Intimacy in Your Married Life

Five Ways to Encourage Emotional Intimacy in Your Married Life

By Sylvia Smith When married couples think of intimacy, their first thought is often sexual intimacy.  Being physically intimate is one of the great benefits of marriage, but there is another vital type of intimacy that couples need to pay attention to: emotional...

Celebrating Actively Involved Divorced Dads

Celebrating Actively Involved Divorced Dads

As Father’s Day approaches, let’s take a moment to celebrate caring, actively involved divorced and divorcing dads: Fathers who put their children first even when their marriage is falling or apart or has ended Dads who recognize and acknowledge their ex’s strengths...

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