Steven’s Blog on Psychology Today

When it comes to preventing a divorce, you're going to be well-served by performing some thoughtful due diligence in the form of an intentional interview.

Oftentimes in relationships one partner "wants" sex more than the other. This, inevitably, sets the relationship up for challenges.

We don't have to hate divorce like God does; instead, we can be grateful that there is a way out of marital disasters.

Despite what any person or religion says, everyone deserves a happy and fulfilling marriage and has the right to leave one that has failed.

Fantasizing is our brain's way of projecting a future scenario or trying ideas on for size.

A relationship is only real, only sustainable, when the two adults in it are authentically themselves.

Imagine that your son or daughter is in a relationship as profoundly dissatisfying as your own. What would you advise your adult child to do?

One of the biggest mistakes we can make is in the arena of mate selection, the most disastrous of which is marrying the wrong person.

An affair can be the crisis that crushes the illusions keeping us from being our real selves with one another and from being loved for who we really are.

As straightforward as the legal process of divorce is, few marriage counselors are willing to share with their clients when enough is enough.