relationship Archives

5 Ways to Reach Your Resolution by Jennifer Fang-Pan

January 3, 2017 by Maggie Dodd Leave a Comment

Happy 2017 everyone! I felt privileged to witness the many personal and interpersonal goals you achieved in 2016 and I’m sure many of you made some resolutions to reach for even more enriching experiences in this new year. Whether you want to: work on being a better partner, spouse, parent, version of yourself; eat, […]

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Sex and the City

July 6, 2014 by LFA Admin Leave a Comment

Laurel Fay provides guest commentary by analyzing Carrie and Big’s relationship in Sex and the City.

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Love, Age 6

April 26, 2012 by LFA Admin Leave a Comment

This morning one of my six year-old daughters confided in me that she is having a problem at school. When I asked her about it, she said that one of her friends, Sam, isn’t talking to her anymore. In fact, he got in trouble yesterday because he put his fingers in his ears and stuck […]

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Pain as a Gift?

March 12, 2012 by LFA Admin Leave a Comment

It’s about midnight, and I can’t sleep because I’m thinking about pain. Today a person I know poured out her pain to me, and it was raw and real and I could feel it, see it. In that moment I felt like she invited me into it, and I accepted, and it hurt. I feel […]

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Healing Relationship Wounds

February 8, 2012 by LFA Admin Leave a Comment

I see a great many couples in my private practice. Lately, there seems to be a theme: couples who have been together or married for many years, who have “grown apart”. This feeling is usually expressed by one partner, while the other is caught somewhat off-guard, not realizing things have gotten as bad as they […]

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Is Your Relationship Helped or Harmed by Social Technology?

March 8, 2011 by LFA Admin Leave a Comment

This is a topic close to my heart, as I am married to a techie geek. I’m not insulting him – he would probably take it as a compliment, actually. And well he should. Were it not for my husband’s tech prowess, I’d still be rolling paper into our old dot-matrix printer and trying to […]

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