Dr. Jordan
Is he or she emotionally available? This is the most important question you should be asking yourself when you are dating for a relationship. Dating for a relationship being a “state of mind” where you are looking for someone who is ready for a healthy love relationship. Of course there are other reasons to date.…
Read MoreFinding someone attractive at work is common. What to do about it is tricky. Let’s assume you are emotionally available and attracted to a person at work who is attracted to you. Should you jump in or think about how to do it in a way that preserves your job, at least. Let’s strategize. The…
Read MoreIf you love a married woman and you’re in a love relationship with her, read this post. You are engaged in what is commonly thought of as a ‘triangle.’ Triangles are rough on the heart. Fundamentally, they are unstable, like three legs on a table. Something always goes wrong, or at least it should, because…
Read MoreEvery once and while I like to write about a love life problem that is a bit more on the messy side. Falling in love with your spouse’s sibling I think warrants that description. Let’s start here, falling for someone else when you’re already married or committed naturally forms a “triangle” in your love life.…
Read MoreEvery once and a while I have to rewrite a post, either because I think of something that updates the information in it or I get feedback that the post needs more work. This post needed more work, so here it goes… First and foremost, let me be clear, living without love can be one…
Read MoreNot easily. The first thing a “victim” of this behavior needs to consider is whether or not the cheating is a “pattern.” Pattern meaning, something that has reoccurred over and over again in the relationship or whether cheating has occurred in previous relationships of the cheater. If there is a pattern, the cheater’s behavior will be…
Read MoreI’m sure you’ve heard of that old statistic that married men live longer and healthier than single men. I figure it has something to do with the fact that when you find love, worth marrying, something settles in you, therefore the phrase “settle down.” I think the same thing applies to women, and your physical…
Read MoreYou married a man who has not yet separated emotionally from his mother. How can you tell? One very obvious sign is she (mother) will be trying to control her son, you, your marriage, up close and from a distance not long after you’ve married her son. The message to you, his wife (or lover,…
Read MoreThe problem with traumatic experiences is we are “vulnerable” when they occur and we tend to hide them to “protect” ourselves. This simple reaction is understandable but interferes with the healing and resolution that needs to take place. Unresolved traumatic experiences can and will remain in the background of our ongoing experience negatively effecting what…
Read MoreWhat is a “Baby Mother?” The definition is the mother of a child, with the implication that the Father or “Baby Father” is not involved or co-parenting the child. In any article dealing with such a topic, in order to be straightforward, I think it’s important to state my “assumptions” outright from the beginning, so…
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