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This Week's
Recommended Book:

The Memory Bible

    In plain language, Gary Small of the UCLA Center on Aging explains how we can avoid most of our forgetfulness. . .


Featured Advice:
Breaking Up

   "An ancient prayer says 'lead me from the unreal to the real.'  That statement applies to everything, including relationships. . ."



Expert Advice 

   There are only two ways of knowing about something. We can know what it is, and we can know what it is not.

   Each week Wayne & Tamara examine the reasoning of a different relationship expert. In the spotlight this week, the research and reasoning of:  William Doherty.

Comments On Other Experts: John GrayJohn GottmanDiane SolleeGary SmalleyBarbara De AngelisJudith WallersteinJudy KurianskyLinda WaiteMichele Weiner DavisPepper SchwartzPhil McGrawShirley GlassFrank PittmanPeggy VaughanWilliam Doherty

 


    # 489    
  This Week's Column
    
                  Week of August 25, 2008

False Allegiance

   "My boyfriend’s mother has treated me unfairly from day one. Surely I couldn’t have done anything to upset her before we even met.

   "When my boyfriend told me after we marry his mother’s issue becomes my problem, I reached my patience’s end and broke it off…"

 


Last Week's Column
Rewriting History

   "My wife and I have been married 40 years. I recently found out that 14 months after we married she began a three year affair…"



     The Love Project

   When Robert Epstein, Harvard-trained Ph.D. and former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, proposed creating love between two people, Wayne & Tamara labeled it the most ill-advised scheme they had ever heard of. . .
  

  Wayne and Tamara Mitchell

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