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What do we need to make our marriage last our lifetime? Committed and Wondering Dear Committed and Wondering, Good for you for thinking about this now. Most people spend lots of time planning their wedding, and then don’t plan their marriage. In fact, many people don’t work on their relationship at all! What can we…

Hello, I read a beautiful piece you wrote about miscarriage and sharing your experience with pregnancy loss. I too have one lovely son, but suffered four miscarriages within the last year and a half. I’m in therapy but suspect I need something more specific to the experience. I can’t find anything in my area. Do…

The purpose of sex varies widely, especially based on our culture, religion, belief system, stage of life and so on. The gap between our evolutionary purpose of sex and our societal purposes, plural, in our brain, is tremendous, even today. Everything from procreation, to “property” and merging of lineage, to happily married to dutifully married,…

This interview on CNN is our own, local Howard Scott Warshaw, MFT, The Silicon Valley Therapist, and one of my couple’s counselors in Connect2. About 30 years ago, in five weeks, Howard designed and coded the game “ET” for Atari, at a time when games took five to nine months to create, code, and de-bug.…

. . . these days there is talk of meditation. My partner is pushing me to take a class. What’s the deal? Stressed Dear Stressed, While people have been meditating for thousands of years, research on meditation is still in its infancy. Scientific American Mind states that Goyal reports in January’s  JAMA Internal Medicine that…

Okay, I’m getting tired of the awkwardness of writing him/her and s/he, etc. I am going to randomly write pronouns (and mix it up from post to post). Just sayin’.

We are facing this at our house these days, and it’s stressful. I mentioned this to a couple of women acquaintances and found that they, too, are coping with and caring for aging or ill parents. Whether you’re the local “kids” or the distant ones, it’s a lot to deal with. It is not only…

As we approach Thanksgiving, I want to thank our Connect2 couples and individuals for putting your trust in us; for doing the good, hard work that it takes to move from being good partners to being a couple (again). We bring expertise and hope; we guide and educate, encourage and challenge — you do the…