Sometimes, at social gatherings, people hear about my work and immediately start sharing their opinions about relationships. Usually it’s all in good fun, but recently it almost pulled me into a heated argument. Ethan and Alice were a couple in their thirties. They... What do you do when the man you love won’t talk to you or work on your problems? That’s what Joyce wanted to know. She showed up in my office, a graceful woman in her late 50s. She’d been married to her husband for decades. He’d been loving and kind when they first... Lauren had a problem. She had a casual thing going with a guy she really liked. It was all going so well. She’d never been happier. Except… She was developing “feelings.” I had to smile as she put air quotes around the word, like it was a horrible thing to confess. “I... Is everything going well with you and your guy? Great, even? Then it might be time to have A Talk. No, not that kind of talk! But rather a Relationship Check-in. It’s like a tune-up for your bond, making sure you’re still in sync. When you first started dating, you... When you meet a man you really like, you don’t feel like keeping your options open. You want to be with him and only him. So you give him the best gift of all: Your complete and whole-hearted commitment. You keep your weekends open for him. You take down your dating... 
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