Part 2 In Part 1 of this series I introduced you to the work of Robert Waldinger, MD and Marc Schultz, PhD wo are co-directors of the iconic, 86-year-old Harvard Study of Adult Development. In their book, The Good Life: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness, they offer expert guidance on
My wife, Carlin, will tell you that one of the main reasons we have had a successful 44-year marriage is because I have been in a men’s group for 45 years. There were seven members in the group when we began. Three have died and four of us are still together. Looking at an early
Part 1 I suspect that there are a lot of males reading this, and probably a lot of females as well, who would like to know the secret. I could tease you with a lot of words and at the end suggest you buy my book, but I suspect you’d like to hear it
“We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.” Alain De Botton In his poetic and powerful book, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship, David Whyte says, “There is that first marriage, the one we usually mean, to another; that second marriage, which
My friend Frederick Marx is an internationally acclaimed, Oscar and Emmy nominated director/writer with 45 years in the film business. I first met Frederick after seeing his 1994 film, Hoop Dreams, one of the highest grossing non-musical documentaries in United States history. It was named, “The Best Documentary of All Time,” by the International Documentary Association. HoopDreams is the true story of two boys from inner-city
According to world-renowned marriage expert, Dr. John Gottman, “What men do in relationships is, by a large margin, the crucial factor that separates a great relationship from a failed one.” Yet most relationship advice has been written by and for women. I have been a marriage and family therapist for more than fifty years and
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