Marriage is essentially the collision of two deeply imperfect people. Over the course of a lifetime together, mistakes are inevitable. However, the injuries sustained in a marriage exist on a vast spectrum—ranging from the mild annoyance of socks left on the floor to the devastating trauma of infidelity or abuse. Forgiveness is rarely a simple choice; it is a complex, often painful process. Seeking mental health support and couples therapy...

In the heat of an argument with your partner, it takes only seconds to go from a minor disagreement to feeling completely overwhelmed. When emotional reactivity takes the wheel, logic and empathy take a backseat. Seeking mental health support to address reactivity is a powerful, proactive way to break the cycle of defensiveness and rebuild a connection rooted in understanding. Here is a closer look at why managing reactivity is...

Nobody tells you what it feels like to sit in a courtroom and watch your marriage get argued over by two people who have never met you, do not particularly like each other, and are both being billed by the hour. You are sitting there in the outfit you spent forty-five minutes picking out, watching the legal version of your life presented to a judge who has seen ten thousand...

You turned off the radio because you no longer knew what you liked. That sounds like a small thing. It is not. For decades, the soundtrack of your daily life was negotiated. The station in the car. The volume at dinner. The background noise of a home built around two people. And now you are standing in your kitchen on a Saturday morning with total silence and total freedom, and...