When your wife puts the kids before you, it is rarely that she stopped loving you. She is depleted, the kids are loud and you are quiet, and there is one line that can start bringing the two of you back.
My Wife Puts the Kids Before Me: Why It Hurts and the One Thing to Say Tonight Read More »
When your husband doesn’t want to work, it is rarely simple laziness. I explain the five roads underneath, the dance between you, and the one line to say tonight.
My Husband Doesn’t Want to Work: What It Means and What to Say Tonight Read More »
When your husband makes you feel ugly, it usually comes through what he says, what he stopped doing, or your own shame filling his silence. Figs O’Sullivan explains how to tell which, when it becomes abuse, and what to say tonight.
My Husband Makes Me Feel Ugly: Why It Happens and What to Say Tonight Read More »
When your husband wants to move and you don’t, the fight is rarely only about the place. Here is how to decide together so neither of you ends up resentful.
My Husband Wants to Move and I Don’t: How to Decide Together Read More »
When your boyfriend keeps saying not yet to moving in, it usually means fear, an old wound, a real practical reason, or a different picture of the future. How to tell which, and what to say to him tonight.
My Boyfriend Doesn’t Want to Move In With Me: What It Really Means Read More »
When your husband is grumpy all the time, the mood is usually carrying stress, shame or low mood he has no words for. How to tell which, and the one sentence to say tonight.
My Husband Is Grumpy All the Time: What His Mood Is Covering Read More »
When your husband sulks, he is usually protesting a disappointment he has no words for. Here is what the mood is protecting, when it turns into pressure, and the one line to say tonight.
My Husband Sulks: What the Mood Is Really Saying (and What Not to Do) Read More »
When a husband is jealous of the kids, it is almost never that he dislikes them. He feels like an outsider in his own family, and there is one line that can bring him back in.
My Husband Is Jealous of Our Kids: What He Is Really Feeling and What to Say Tonight Read More »
When your wife has energy for everyone except you, she has usually stopped asking, not stopped caring. Here is how to tell which, and the one line to say to her tonight.
My Wife Doesn’t Want to Spend Time With Me: What It Means and What to Say Tonight Read More »
When your wife is always tired, it is rarely laziness. How to tell if it is her body, depression, a load she carries alone, or depletion in the marriage, and what to say to her tonight.
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