When you’ve reached the point in your relationship where marriage feels like the natural next step, finding the right way to communicate this desire can feel challenging. The conversation requires ...

One minute you’re sipping Mai Tais on your honeymoon, the next you’re toasting to 10 years of marriage and wondering where the heck the years went. But when you lift the hood up on a decade of ...

Doing “slow love”—choosing multiple premarital partners, having friends with benefits, or living with a partner for a while—is what young couples often do before they choose to marry. This is a good ...

A strong marriage doesn’t happen by chance. It grows through daily effort, mutual respect, and small choices that quietly ...

If you and your partner are in love and having the time of your lives together, marriage may seem like a no-brainer. But even if you both agree that tying the knot is the natural next step for your ...

This may seem like a strange article for a couples counselor to write, especially a couples counselor who has written posts on 100 ways to grow closer to your partner, how to connect via conversation, ...

It can be sneaky. Sometimes subtle and unintended. It can be tough. Sometimes it has roots in deep emotional wounds or ...

Imagine sitting across from your fiancé for the first time—two people trying to move from being strangers to building a ...

My first post in this series discussed conversations 1 through 5. This post covers conversations 6 through 10. Doing “slow love” (choosing multiple pre-marital partners, having friends with benefits, ...