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4 Things Polyamorous Couples Can Teach Monogamous Couples About Sex
Polyamorous couples organize their sex lives in ways that could be informative to monogamous couples . Monogamy is a reasonable enough organization of relationships and is probably best for most couples. However, a truly healthy marital relationship ought to be built on an understanding that, as necessary as it may be, monogamy is nonetheless a bit ridiculous. Not only do polyamorous couples know…
Apr 12, 2024
What Monogamous Couples Can Learn From Polyamorous Couples: Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist in MindBodyGreen
Polyamory requires partners to navigate their relationships with more consideration and awareness than monogamous couples. Monogamous couples have the benefit of an already determined relationship structure. While polyamory is not for every couple (nor is it for most couples), this thoughtfulness could teach monogamous couples a thing or two about how to tend to their relationship. Our Founder…
Apr 11, 2024
Conflicts About Pets Often Symbolize Deeper Relationship Issues for Couples: Director of Supervision and Training Kelly Scott in The Wildest
If you’re fighting with your partner over your cats getting along or whether the dog can be in the bedroom during sex, is the conflict really about the pet(s)? Often it’s not. Our Director of Supervision and Training Kelly Scott recently spoke to The Wildest in three articles that break down how couples’ arguments over pets frequently symbolize deeper issues in the relationship.Most recently in…
Apr 09, 2024
We Nearly Blamed Rose: Why the "Other Woman" Trope Is So Persistent
One of the biggest social media frenzies of conspiracy theorizing and innuendo in recent memory was the furor around the whereabouts and well-being of Kate Middleton. After Kate’s announcement of her cancer diagnosis, there should be a moment of reflection, including how and why Lady Rose Hanbury was dragged into the fervor by being incorrectly labeled as “the other woman” in an unsubstantiated…
Apr 05, 2024
Miscarriages Are Far Too Isolating: We Need to Talk About Them More
How we talk about pregnancy leaves women and their families alone with the experience of miscarriage. A miscarriage is a complicated loss that is very often silenced by how we talk—or don’t talk—about pregnancy. There is a collective rule to not share pregnancy news until after about twelve weeks when the risk of a miscarriage is lower (a miscarriage is a pregnancy loss before twenty weeks).…
Apr 03, 2024
Apologies Aren't Always Nice (Part 2): How to Do Them More Thoughtfully (Hint: Slow Down)
Before apologizing, ask yourself: Am I expecting the hurt person to forgive me immediately?. In the previous part of this two-part series, I laid out how some forms of apologizing can put pressure on the hurt party to make the transgressor feel better as soon as possible. But people who struggle with tolerating the discomfort of these circumstances experience an equally difficult time identifying…
Apr 01, 2024
Apologies Aren't Always Nice (Part 1)
Apologies aren’t always as straightforward as an attempt to open the door for reconnection. You will hurt the people you care about. Ideally, apologizing is a way to own this mistake and make it clear to the person you hurt that you recognize your transgression, take accountability for it, and assure you’ll do your best to ensure it won’t happen again. Hurting someone you care about puts a strain…
Mar 29, 2024
Having Needs Is Human: A Therapist Grapples With Deceptions, Estrangements, and the Denial of Needs in 'Maestro'
“I don’t need!”: Having needs is an essential part of being human. [caption id="attachment_7040" align="alignleft" width="300"] Carey Mulligan’s Felicia Montealegre discusses her needs (or lack thereof) in Maestro (Courtesy of Netflix)[/caption]I can’t stop thinking about a scene from Maestro in which Carey Mulligan’s Felicia Montealegre addresses her husband’s deceptions and estrangements. She…
Mar 25, 2024
Want to Raise Unspoiled Kids? Teach Them to Grapple With Values
Spoiling yourself and being frugal are competing values that children watch their parents navigate. There is a notable tension between the value of parents raising children who aren’t spoiled and the values of capitalism. “Spoil yourself,” as well as the related “indulge” or “treat-yo-self,” have become virtues nearly synonymous with “self-care.” Even the hyphenated self-care with minor shifting…
Mar 07, 2024
Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist on Sex Therapy (And Why Your Therapy Also Needs to Be Talking About Sex) in The Cut
Sex therapists are skilled specialists who have something to offer that even a very sex-positive and sex-savvy therapist doesn’t. However, if you’re not also talking about sex in therapy, whether couples therapy or individual therapy, your therapy is lacking. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist recently spoke to The Cut about what to look for in a sex therapist and why talking about…
Mar 06, 2024
How to Not Raise Spoiled Kids: Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist in The Huffington Post
Some of the hardest work for parents is to tolerate that their children can both be wonderful and do things that aren’t so wonderful. However, this fact, along with the need to name and, when necessary, give consequences for bad behavior, is a key piece of raising kids who aren’t spoiled. Our Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist recently spoke to The Huffington Post on how parents can…
Mar 05, 2024
3 More Reasons Why You Shouldn't Wait to Seek Therapy Postpartum
As I wrote in the first part of this two-part series, new moms and dads tend to only seek therapy when things have reached a crisis point. To further emphasize why new parents shouldn't wait to seek therapy postpartum, here are three more things the huge transition of new parenthood can bring up:1. When you add a new family member, your relationship changes. A new baby is a huge transition for a…
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