Expert advice to get your relationships back on track
2008
Tensions between a member of a couple and his or her in-laws marks one of the oldest rivalries in the book. Countless men and women have difficulties navigating their relationship with their in-laws. In fact, many books have been written about this subject to help people cope better with this situation. One, in particular, is called “Toxic In-Laws,” which was written by my friend Dr. Susan Forward. This is a great resource and you can easily search for it online.
2008
October is National Family Sexuality Education Month, so this column is devoted to parents and some-day parents.
I was once talking about sex education programs with a sixteen-year-old girl and her mother when the girl happily said, “My mom’s my best friend. We share everything.” But moments later, when her mom said she had sex for the first time “at a very young age” and the experience was “lovely and experimental,” her daughter’s face registered shock.
2008
“My children have a bad relationship with their mother. My wife and I fight all the time about them. I am a bit easy going in my way. My wife is always criticizing every thing the kids do. I feel she is right most of the time. It’s not what she says it’s that she never stops. even when something gets sorted out she still has to go on and on, until it all starts up again. I blame myself for not being hard enough on the kids. I don’t know what to do anymore.“
- Brian
2008
You meet him. He’s nice, he’s friendly, and he’s got a great smile. You have coffee together, you click. He’s even got a good job, nice apartment and a cool car. He’s perf… wait, hold a minute. His cell phone rings, and it’s yes, it is, the other woman. He hangs up, embarrassed that he got caught like that. You smile, politely but with curiosity. Then it comes out. The other woman is his daughter. You smile again, as you almost choke on your iced lemon pound cake. Didn’t see that coming, huh? You’ve found yourself an AMWK (Awesome Man with Kids).
2008
It’s hard enough to be out in the dating pool, but to add into the mix children and it can become over whelming. Some will tell you that your not dating the child however if this child chooses not to like you then it will add unnecessary stress into the relationship. The statement about not dating the child is only half true, when you are dating a person with kids I hate to tell you but it’s a package deal. If the kids are not happy then I will guarantee that the parent will soon end it with you and move on.
2008
Note: the following article was written by Kenneth Brown (see his biography below).
Free Will
We blame our parents, our environment and the people we hang out with for making us the people we are today. But when we begin to take responsibility for our actions we will also begin to realize that what they did to us was nothing compared to what we’ve done to ourselves.
When our child’s mother asked us why we haven’t come to see our child, some of us have told her how busy we were. But what were we so busy doing? We were getting high, becoming slaves to our profession, hanging out with our friends or spending time with some other woman. And the same applies to money. When our child’s mother asked us for money for our child, we told her how short on funds we were, and yet we had money for new clothes, drinks, drugs, cd’s, a tank of gas or to take some woman out. Matter of fact, one of the reasons we didn’t see our children as often as we should have was because we knew their mother would ask for money.
