Your Startup Is Winning. Your Marriage Is Dying. Here’s How to Save Both. She called me on a Thursday afternoon. Her voice was steady but I could hear the exhaustion underneath it. “He just raised twenty million dollars. Everyone’s celebrating. And I’m sitting in the car in a parking lot crying because he forgot our […]
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Watch: Figs O’Sullivan, LMFT explains this. If you feel “my husband doesn’t love me anymore,” or he has said it out loud, it usually means he can no longer feel the love through the hurt and protection that has built up between you, not that the love is gone. In most marriages I see, those
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Something just happened. Maybe you found the texts. Maybe a fight crossed a line neither of you thought possible. Maybe someone said “I’m done” and for the first time, you believed them. Or maybe nothing dramatic happened at all. Maybe the distance between you has been growing for months, and tonight one of you finally
Watch: Figs O’Sullivan, LMFT explains this. Start free with Figlet. Your spouse just said the words. Or maybe they haven’t said them yet, but you can feel it coming. The distance. The coldness. The way they’ve stopped fighting, which is somehow worse than the fighting. You’re Googling “how to save my marriage” at midnight because
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A couple sat in my office. They had been married nineteen years. Two kids. Both had good jobs. On paper, this should have been straightforward. They had been in litigation for eleven months over a toaster. Not a fancy toaster. A four-slice Cuisinart. Maybe worth forty dollars on eBay. Their combined legal fees on this
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I know what you look like when you walk through my door. You’re the couple searching for last resort couples therapy because nothing else has worked. One of you is barely holding it together. You made the appointment. You did the research. You dragged your partner here because somewhere inside you there’s still a flicker
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You Run a Company. But You Can’t Run a Therapy Session. That’s the Point. He sat down across from me and immediately started managing the room. Pulled out his phone, showed me his calendar. “I’ve got forty-five minutes, then I have a board call. Let’s be efficient.” His wife looked at me with an expression
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Founders’ marriages usually fail for an attachment reason, not a scheduling one. The company becomes a third partner that gets the founder’s best attention, the spouse’s nervous system reads that absence as “you are not there for me,” and the founder hears the protest as “you are not enough.” Round and round it goes, until
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Watch: Figs O’Sullivan, LMFT explains this. Feeling disconnected from your spouse is not the same as falling out of love. It means the emotional bond between you has eroded so that you are coexisting and managing logistics like strangers in the same house. Understanding why this distance happens is the key to finding your way
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Co-parenting counseling is short-term, structured work with a trained therapist that helps two separated or divorced parents stop fighting through their kids and start functioning as a parenting team. Co-parenting therapy is the same work under another name: it covers the practical agreements (communication rules, handoffs, the parenting plan) and goes underneath them to the
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