Dr. Jordan
I’m going to assume that people who want kids and people who don’t want kids might read this post. I know this to be a pretty sensitive topic. As far as I’m concerned there is no right or wrong here, just personal choices. Perhaps the rule of thumb should be: find someone that wants what…
IF SOMEONE IS MAKING YOU FEEL SCARED OR UNSAFE, you may be able to get an Order of Protection or ‘OP’ (also called a ‘restraining order’) from a New York State Family Court, Criminal Court or both. The Supreme Court can also issue an OP if you are getting a divorce. WHAT IS AN ORDER OF…
Yesterday I sat with a very pregnant woman. In fact she is 7 months pregnant with twins. She told me a secret that pregnant women probably all know about but never tell (except to each other, maybe). She broke ranks and told me (a man!) about the ‘pregnant woman’s prerogative.’ Now if you’re a pregnant…
By Susan Greene MA, MFTI Guest writer for the Love-Life Learning Center When it comes to the quality of relationships you have with someone you are in love with, the quality of the relationship you have with yourself cannot be ignored. Betrayals Addictions Emotional, Verbal, Physical, or Financial Abuse These issues are common to couples…
There are five (5) tasks in a love life, any love life. Chances are any particular person will encounter all of these tasks to various degrees during the course of his or her love life. To master any particular task in the set of five requires a tolerance for a certain experience that goes with…
There are a lot of good reasons to think clearly when it comes to having sex. Safe sex is probably the first one up. Unwanted pregnancy is a close second, and the emotional consequences to having sex with someone would be a third. Of course we can’t pin this exclusively on men. There are plenty…
We all know love as an elusive emotion with a mind of its own. Many of us also know love as a painful emotion. Sometimes loves doesn’t come when we want it to or leaves when we want it to stay. I have been writing about love now for the past year on this blog.…
At the risk of being called an ‘old fart’ who thinks he can intelligently talk about the newer generation’s obsession with gaming, my meager credentials are I have a teenage son. In this post I will be talking about people who are old enough to have a love life and young enough to appreciate an…
This post is about breaking up with someone who is being abusive. In a previous post, Am I Being Abused In My Love-Life, we learned that there are several types of relationship abuse: verbal, emotional, physical, sexual, and financial. If you decide to leave a relationship when one or more of these abuses are occurring, it’s important to…
Whether you are a man or a woman, you can be the victim of abuse in a relationship. Even though victims of abuse usually hide what is happening to them for a time, men tend to have even more reason to hide abuse beyond the usual shame a victim will feel. Why? Because men often…