Month: February 2014

Your Past Shouldn’t Determine Your Future

By Dr. Jordan / February 21, 2014 /

There are certain freedoms in life we have to protect or they simply slip away. The ability to actively and effectively determine our own present and future is one of them. How so? You see, your past is extremely, and I mean extremely, persuasive. We human beings like to learn things once and keep doing…

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Couples Who Depend On Their Kids

By Dr. Jordan / February 20, 2014 /

This post is about couples who avoid their “couple issues” by over-focusing instead on the children they are responsible to raise. We could say this is an old “defense mechanism” meant to decrease the stress and unhappiness involved in the differences and difficulties that can and will come up between two people. If this is…

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Do We Need Marriage Anymore??

By Dr. Jordan / February 13, 2014 /

Yes, yes, absolutely yes! Why? We must protect the opportunities we have to “deepen” love with “commitment.” Why? Because only through commitment does love deepen, really deepen. Now this is not to say commitment has to mean marriage. I believe it is entirely possible to commit to someone you never marry. People do this all…

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Were You Ever Stood Up?

By Dr. Jordan / February 3, 2014 /

Were you ever stood up? You know, you made a date and he or she didn’t show up? What was that about? There is a psychology behind being stood up that requires our attention. We’ll look at this phenomenon from the perspectives of the “person who stands another person up” and the “person who gets…

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