Shawn knew he was in love. His insecurities melted away. Every day made him feel on the brink of a golden future. As he spent more time with Samantha, his excitement about her grew, and his sense of anticipation became constant. Every thought of her suggested limitless possibilities. As for sex, his libido was stronger
How the Love Doctor Finally Met Her Match I first met Helen Fisher at a conference where we were both speaking about sex, love, and relationships. My book Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Overcoming Romantic and Sexual Addictions had just been published and her book, Anatomy of Love: A Natural History
There’s an old saying that we teach what we want to learn. I’ve been a marriage and family counselor since 1968. I was twenty-five years old then, had just received my master’s degree in Social Welfare, and my wife and I had been married exactly two years. We didn’t have children but were planning to
Every day we wake up to a world that seems hopelessly divided. It feels like we’re tearing ourselves apart. No one wants what we have, but we seem helpless to make things better. Many have just given up and escape into a world of make believe where we pretend that everything is fine while inside
The overturning of Roe v. Wade is the latest assault on democracy in our country. It reminds me of Benjamin Franklin’s reply to a woman who asked Franklin a question as he exited Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787. “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?” Franklin supposedly replied, “A
Part 4 In part 1, part 2, and part 3, I described the problem of depression, the extent of the problem, and why our current approach is misguided and ultimately ineffective, why focusing on men can help men and women, and the beginnings of a new approach for understanding what causes depression and how
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