June 15, 2025
What’s Up with Grey Divorce? A Couples Therapist Explains
What’s Up with “Gray Divorce”? A Couples Therapist Explains By Gina Watson, LMFTS, Marriage Therapist Let’s talk about something that’s been showing up more and...
June 2, 2025
Should I Stay or Leave?
Should I Stay or Leave? As a couples therapist, I often work with partners who are committed to doing the work of repairing and deepening...
May 31, 2025
Defensiveness is Worse Than You Think
7 Types of Defensiveness in Relationships (and What to Do Instead) By Gina Watson, LMFTS, Marriage Therapist What is defensiveness in a relationship, and why...
January 13, 2018
Skeptical About Therapy? Read This.
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I get it, you don’t want to come. Don’t worry, you’re not alone, this is a common predicament that couples’ therapists encounter. Even though I...
April 21, 2016
Early Detection Saves Marriages
I’m in lovely St. Charles, Illinois today learning from a master therapist, Dr. Brent Atkinson. He is a professor, researcher, author and couples therapist who...
November 11, 2015
How to Keep your Wife
Dear Complacent Husband,
Imagine that you purchase your dream car at age 28 but are told that you have to drive it for 50 years. Period. No buts. Driving any other car in this lifetime is non-negotiable. This is your dream car and the thought of it is so intoxicating you don’t think about the distant future.
You decide ...
October 21, 2015
5 Mistakes that Doom Second Marriages
Marriage is a serious challenge when only two people are involved. Add children from a previous marriage, ex-spouses and other family members and you’ve got a marriage full of landmines just waiting to explode. But we’re romantics and we love love