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A Better Alternative to Traditional Premarital Counseling
Reprinted from The Tennessean newspaper According to the Department of Health, at least 7,000 couples will tie the knot this June in Tennessee, funneling into a total of 64,000 weddings for the year. After lavish weddings giddy newlyweds will run off to exotic places...
Competence and Connection
Competence “Is that the right lawn fertilizer for this time of year?” It was a fairly neutral, innocuous question my wife asked me. What was revealing was how I responded to it. Not outwardly, only inwardly. Dorrie knows enough about fertilizer to know that those...
Communication Habits to Break
Communication Habits to Break by Ramon Presson, PhD, LMFT Overgeneralization: The use of words like always, never, nothing, everything, anything. Sarcasm: Put-downs mistakenly believed by the sender to be clever. Mocking: Verbal mocking is similar to sarcasm....