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Is Financial Stress Killing Your Marriage?
The current economic climate is taking a toll on many marriages as partners struggle with financial stress. But financial stress isn’t a new problem for marriages; finances has long been the #1 thing cited by couples as a problem-area when they divorce. Dr. Tina Lepage talks about healthy ways to handle financial stress.

How To Tell Your Spouse You Have Had An Affair
Dr. Janet Savia outlines important things to consider when preparing to tell your spouse you have been unfaithful. She talks about if, when, and how to break this difficult news. She offers straightforward suggestions on how to avoid doing further damage to your marriage.

Balancing Children and Your Marriage
Dr. Jacobs describes how having children can negatively impact one’s relationship with their spouse. She offers tips on how to avoid problems within the marriage as a result of family and financial responsibilities. Dr. Jacobs discusses how taking some time out for one another, creating a routine that the whole family will enjoy, and finding ways to co-parent together can increase marital happiness while raising your children.

Can Anything Positive Come Out Of An Affair?
Dr. Molly Parks describes the impact that an affair can have on a marriage. Along with providing possible reasons such as sexual dissatisfaction at home, emotional disconnection from your spouse and altering life events like having children, she also mentions common reactions that spouses may have. Amidst an affair, Dr. Parks describes ways to overcome them in order to save your marriage and demonstrates that the healing process of an affair can be an opportunity to deepen your relationship, improve communication with your spouse, and understand the dynamics of your relationship better.

Ready to Spice Up Your Sex Life?
Colette Segalla discusses common challenges in long term marriages to maintaining a healthy and happy sex life. She identifies common patterns in the decline of sex in a marriage and how to shift those patterns for a revitalized and satisfying sex life.

The Suspicion is Killing Me
Dr. Nicole Imbraguglio discusses how to cope with suspicion of infidelity in your relationship, why it might be that you feel suspicious, that suspicion is not always a harmful feeling, and how to talk to about it with your partner.

She’s Put on so Much Weight, What do I do?
Dr. Raiji addresses the effects weight gain by one spouse can have on the marriage, reasons behind weight gain, and what roles weight gain may play in the relationship, some of which may be surprising. Dr. Raiji also gives pointers to the spouse who has not gained weight in handling the situation with love and compassion.

Dealing with Depression
Colette Segalla discusses the effects of depression on a marriage and how to deal with those effects. She also discusses how to recognize the symptoms of depression and what can be done to treat the depression in the individual and in the marriage. Colette outlines important steps to take in order for couples to remain supportive of one another and for the relationship to stay viable when depression occurs in a marriage.

Working With Your Spouse
Dr. Jacobs shares the advantages and potential pitfalls when working with your spouse. She provides strategies to maximize effective communication and happiness in both the work setting and at home. Doing a little planning ahead can go a long way for couples who are either employed at the same company, run a business together, or are in a situation where one is the boss of the other.

Keeping May-December Romance In Season
Colette Segalla discusses the ups and downs of age difference in marriage. Marriages between two people with a significant age difference often bring their own challenges that, when recognized, can be dealt with effectively. Colette also discusses the benefits of age-difference marriages and how to allow those benefits to strengthen the partnership.

10th Anniversary: Reflections of a Marriage Counselor
In this unscripted interview Dr. Lepage talks about her marriage of 10 years. Does 10 years of marriage seem like a piece of cake, or have you made it through the first 10 years and wonder if you’ll make it for another 10? Dr. Lepage lets you behind the curtain of what a marriage counselor’s relationship is like and shares what she has done to keep her marriage strong for a decade.

Don’t Let Your Marriage Go Into a Recession
Dr. Imbraguglio discusses a topic that many couples don’t see eye-to-eye on: money. This podcast covers the different attitudes people can have about money, how differences in attitudes toward money can impact a relationship, and ways to accept your partner’s different viewpoint.

Three's a Crowd: Dealing with Your Spouse's Ex
Dr. Parks discusses that divorce can be a very difficult transition, but navigating new partners and blended families can produce hurdles that can cause ongoing challenges for all members of the family. This podcast looks at how to communicate effectively with ex partners and your ex-partners new spouse and offers strategies for dealing with difficult scenarios that may come up in blended families.

Discipline With Love
Dr. Lepage shares the three reasons why almost all children act out, as well as common mistakes couples make in addressing acting out. She also talks about what steps you can take today to better communicate with your kids and each other in order to raise better behaved children in a loving environment.

7 Ways to Get More Sex
Dissatisfaction with the amount of sex in a relationship is a common problem in marriages and long term relationships. Dr. Lepage discusses sure-fire techniques to add more sex to your life.

Don’t Let Your New Job Cost You Your Old Spouse
Changing jobs, or even careers, has become a common occurrence in today’s economic climate and can be one of the most disruptive events in a couple’s relationship. Dr. Lepage discusses what makes these transitions so stressful to a marriage and shares tips on how to keep anxiety about schedules and income from creating tension and distance between you and your spouse.

Is TV Ruining Your Marriage?
Dr. Hamilton discusses the impact that technology has on relationships and families and how to maintain healthy relationships in the age of technology.

Paying for Marriage Counseling
Sometimes, the hardest part of getting to marriage counseling is taking care of the cost. Not knowing how therapists bill or how much counseling will cost can end up putting more pressure on an already strained relationship. Dr. Lepage discusses what options therapists provide and how to find the therapist that is right for you without spending an arm and a leg on initial sessions with different counselors, as well as how to find out when sliding-scale and pro-bono options are available.

How To Keep Your Work From Killing Your Marriage
Dr. Imbragulgio examines how dedicating too much time to work, hobbies, or social activities can cause problems in your relationship and be indicators that there are other problems as well.

Staying Married for the Kids
Dr. Lepage discusses whether it’s better to stay in a troubled marriage, for the sake of your children, rather than separate from your spouse? She also explains how perceptive children are about the happiness of their parents and how to decide if there is room for actually fixing the marriage and not just putting up with your spouse until the kids are gone.

Going Back to School Without Putting Your Marriage in Detention
Dr. Imbraguglio discusses what aspects of a relationship are most likely to suffer when one spouse returns to school and what steps each partner can take to ensure that the needs of both the couple and the family are met during the process.

Sleeping with Your Spouse
Recorded Dr. Lepage shares strategies for problems couples face when sleeping in the same bed and the importance of creating a pleasant and relaxing bedtime experience with your spouse.

Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
Dr. Hamilton shares strategies for putting an end to destructive fighting and turning conflict into a process that is both constructive and beneficial to the marriage, as well as discussing how much fighting is too much, and whether fighting in front of the kids is always a bad idea

Getting Your Husband to Do What You Want
Everyone has incidents where a spouse (either husband or wife) is resistant to cooperation or compromise. Dr. Lepage discuss common issues where husbands and wives have disagreements and how to assess and resolve these issues.

Is Pornography Destroying Your Marriage?
Dr. Imbraguglio discusses the patterns and effects of pornography use in a marriage and the impact it has on both spouses, as well as how a couple can reconcile their feelings and behavior with one another.

Helping Your Spouse and Yourself Fight Depression
Dr. Imbraguglio discusses how easy it can be to let depression go unnoticed and the toll that depression can have on children, the other spouse, and the entire marriage, and how to talk to one another towards ending the depression.

Husbands Taking Initiative
Dr. Lepage talks about how wives can express their needs in this area most effectively, and how husbands wanting to take more initiative can do so successfully.

Stay Happily Married… With Children, Part I
Dr. Lepage discusses the stresses and joys parenting brings to a relationship, and how to keep the couples’ connection and intimacy while fulfilling the roles and responsibilities of parenting.

Stay Happily Married… With Children, Part II
Dr. Lepage looks at how differences in parenting styles can affect the couple, and suggests effective strategies for navigating these differences.

COUPLES & MARRIAGE ARTICLES

Keeping May-December Romance in Season
Colette Segalla discusses the ups and downs of age difference in marriage. Marriages between two people with a significant age difference often bring their own challenges that, when recognized, can be dealt with effectively. Colette also discusses the benefits of age-difference marriages and how to allow those benefits to strengthen the partnership.

Dealing with Your Partner’s Depression
In this article we look at the effects of depression on a marriage and how to deal with those effects. We explore how to recognize the symptoms of depression and what can be done to treat the depression in the individual and in the marriage. Lastly, important steps are outlined to take in order for couples to remain supportive of one another and for the relationship to stay viable when depression occurs in a marriage.

Disaster Proof Your Relationship
All relationships go through rough patches from time to time, especially during periods of stress. Read about signs that indicate that your relationship is on the rocks and tips on how to keep your relationship afloat.

The Keys to Relationship Fulfillment
Written by Nicole Imbraguglio, Psy.D. In this article, Dr. Imbraguglio discusses seven principles that can help you feel more fulfilled in your marriage. Learn how to increase your level of satisfaction with your partner through implementing these principles into your marriage.

Your Love Language
Written by Nicole Imbraguglio, Psy.D. In this article, Dr. Imbraguglio addresses the five love languages people use to express their feelings to one another. Learn about what love language you use and how to communicate to your partner that you understand how they like to be loved.

Relationship Success: 3 Quick Tips to Improve Your Relationship
Written by Nicole Imbraguglio, Psy.D. Learn three minor things you can do to improve your relationship in a major way.