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An Educational Post Concerning the Importance of Understanding the Severity of the Restroom Issues Transgender People Face
An Educational Post Concerning the Importance of Understanding the Severity of the Restroom Issues Transgender People Face People are born transgender. It happens while developing in utero. Every fetus starts out as “female” while developing during the 1st trimester of pregnancy. Approximately at the end of the 1st trimester/beginning of the 2nd trimester, hormones [...]
Depathologizing Sexual Eroticism
Depathologizing Sexual Eroticism Understanding why men's and women's erotic identities are so different It’s a story I’ve heard many times in my practice. A marriage is going along just fine until the day a wife discovers that her husband has been watching Internet porn, porn that bears little resemblance to what she and her [...]
Guest Blogger R. Shelly Loomus, JD, MSW: “The Best Interests of Children in High-Conflict Divorces” (Conflict Management)
Guest Blogger R. Shelly Loomus, JD, MSW: "The Best Interests of Children in High-Conflict Divorces" (Conflict Management) Guest Blogger R. Shelly Loomus, JD, MSW, explores step-by-step strategies that have successfully helped people manage their divorce-related conflicts in her new book, Winning Your High-Conflict Divorce: Strategies for Moms and Dads. "The Best Interests of Children in High-Conflict Divorces" takes [...]
Relationship Counseling – 3 Tips to Improve Your Relationship (When You are the Only One in Counseling)
Relationship Counseling – 3 Tips to Improve Your Relationship (When You are the Only One in Counseling) What if you want to improve your relationship, but your partner will not come along? Can you still improve your relationship better without the help of your partner coming to therapy with you?. You may [...]
Porn Addiction – 3 Main Physiological Problems That Arise
Porn Addiction – 3 Main Physiological Problems That Arise It’s impossible to understand pornography’s impact on relationships without considering the role of the Internet. Years ago, it was a time-consuming —often expensive—chore to find new and titillating erotica. But in the last couple of decades, the range of explicit material available online has exponentially [...]
The 4 Stages of Coming Out as a Couple in a Mixed Orientation Marriage
The 4 Stages of Coming Out as a Couple in a Mixed Orientation Marriage In a mixed-orientation marriage, one spouse is straight and the other is gay or bisexual. The Straight Spouse Network (www.ssnetwk.org) cites that there are more than two million mixed orientation couples. Therapists will often coach the lesbian or [...]