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Are you ready to break up or to wake up? That’s the first question to ask yourself after you or your partner has had an affair. If you think maybe it was a wake-up call, instead of a way out of the relationship, then there are three steps you can take to repair things between you. Check out my recent article on YourTango to learn the three steps necessary to recover and build a stronger, more passionate post-affair relationship. #infidelity #recoveringafterinfidelity #relat

Sex That Works by Wendy Stragr, founder and owner of Good Clean Love, was reviewed in the New York Times this week, an excellent review! They say the book is “…thoughtful, well written and dare I say, a little inspirational.” So excited for her. The article is “Sex-Ed for Grownups” — they also review Laurie Mintz’s Becoming Cliterate and Winifred M. Reilly’s It Takes One To Tango . The journalist Judith Newman starts off with an interesting quote: “According to a 2004 stud

Guest Author: Aviva Chansky Guttmann, LMSW Original article first published on www.NetworkTherapy.org Nature is not the only place to notice rebirth and renewal. We associate spring weather with new romances and the lightness we feel after winter’s weight and coldness. Often we are so glad to shed damp winter dreariness that we develop the colloquial spring fever. It’s a wonderful feeling of expanding boundaries and openness, and since many people around us are equally intoxi

In today’s changing world, there is no one right way to be in a relationship. In my book, The New Monogamy , couples can create a new type of agreement where they can change their implicit assumptions around their monogamy to a more explicit discussion, creating a more consensual relationship. In Carrie Jenkins’ book, What Love Is and What It Could Be , she talks about negotiating her world of loving relationships. Sometimes couples who are in implicitly monogamous relation

Trump’s recent action to rescind former President Obama’s school bathroom order has put our transgender and gender nonconforming (TG/NC) youth at renewed and heightened risk, both for violence and discrimination, but also for suicide, mental illness, and self-harm. The American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) recently issued a statement supporting the rights of these students. I appreciate them stepping up. Family therapists can and should help protect the rights and safety of

There are three simple steps that all couples who survive an affair move through to feel better. Can you recover after your partner has an affair? There are three simple steps that all couples who survive an affair move through to feel better, stronger, sexier and more passionate than ever. Some couples even say they are happier after infidelity . They have more intimacy , they feel connected and they know what they want for their future. Are you one of those couples? If

“Youth across the US, and the entire world for that matter, deserve access to relevant, contemporary information about sex,” said Robert Parmer recently in Elite Daily . Rarely today is there mention of LGBTQI+ issues when sex education is offered in schools. The curriculum is usually heteronormative, gives little in the way of orientation education , and most LGBTQI+ youth are left feeling invisible, unworthy, and sometimes even wrong. These young people are then more ill-pr

The dilemmas around sexuality in our culture abound. We often repress our true desires, confused about our fantasies, guilt and shame forcing us to detach them from our relationships and using the internet to avoid intimacy. But some couples today are finding ways to use cyber-sex to avoid distancing and create more intimacy in their relationships. Read the rest of my article recently posted to Thrive Global here: https://journal.thriveglobal.com/is-cyber-sex-ethical-e948d41a