Feeling Empty in Marriage
By Dan Blair, a marriage counselor and family counselor. As a marriage and family therapist I have learned techniques to help marriages and family relationships work. The one that works best by [...]
How to Stay Married
By Dan Blair, a marriage counselor and family counselor. At times people think about how problems would be solved if they were married to someone else. Some problems may be solved this way, but [...]
Is My Marriage Over?
By Dan Blair, a marriage counselor and family counselor. Statistics show that more and more Baby Boomers in their 50s and 60s are divorcing. Why? The Baby Boomer generation is among the first to [...]
Does This Count as Cheating?
By Dan Blair, a marriage counselor and family counselor. What if your wife befriended someone unknown to you on Facebook? What about your husband’s phone always being locked? Is there a problem [...]
Attacks by Panic
By Dan Blair, a marriage counselor and family counselor. Suddenly your heart starts beating out of your chest and you can’t catch your breath. You feel tingling sensations creeping up your arms [...]
Common Childhood Diagnoses
By Dan Blair, a marriage counselor and family counselor. Children with a disorder are often diagnosed with one of the following: Autism Autism is often first noticed by the parents when their [...]
50 Tips to Prevent Infidelity
Tip 1: Rule Number One: You are Playing on the Same Team! When you hit a rough spot in your relationship you may forget that you and your partner are playing on the same team – the “Smith” or [...]
Premarital Counseling
By Dan Blair, a marriage counselor and family counselor. Premarital counseling cannot prevent a divorce, but may better equip one to better manage the challenges associated with one of the [...]
How to Overcome the Fear of Commitment
1. Sometimes yesterday’s lessons teach us to keep living in fear rather than evaluating each day or each person anew. Do a reality check. Yesterday’s lessons sometimes teach us wise and useful [...]