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One of the dangers of going through a divorce while you’re trying ride out a sickness or injury is that you might feel helpless and fail to meet needs for control and autonomy. Even if you can “outthink” your problems and find people to meet your crucial needs in the...
How can you manage a California divorce (or child custody matter) if you are sick or laid up in the hospital? Short answer: you need to “outthink yourself.” Assuming that your mental faculties are still descent, you can accomplish a lot, even if you can’t move that...
Perhaps you suffered a horrible illness that put you in the hospital — and your wife told you that she was leaving you, right before you went in for surgery. Or maybe you have been struggling with a mental illness, like depression or bipolar, and your husband decided...
On May 15th, Oklahoma knocked the Los Angeles Clippers of the 2014 playoffs in game 6, finishing off California’s hopes of a basketball championship this year. If you have been struggling with a divorce or child custody situation, the Clippers’ downfall holds a few...
In middle of May, an awful series of wildfires scorched Southern California, burning many houses in towns like Carlsbad and forcing the closure of literally dozens of school districts. What can this awful event (or perhaps, better put, series of events) teach us about...
Tabloids and blogs often publish eye-grabbing headlines like “Top 10 Reasons Men in California Get Divorced” or “3 Things Men Who Succeed in Child Custody Battles Have in Common.” When you see such stories, take them with a grain of salt. Often, they flow from a...
What drives couples apart, and what strategies help them to stay together? Pick up any tabloid, open any blog about marriage and family, or talk to any random person on the street, and you be assailed with passionate opinions. Unfortunately, parsing truth from fiction...
Decades ago, a famous social psychologist in Missouri conducted an experiment that would change the way researchers thought about divorce forever. The researcher took random people off the street and asked these people to observe couples through a one-way glass...
Self-improvement should be an ongoing quest. It is not a project that you do “just once” during your divorce. Rather, it is a way of life embodied by two basic principles: 1. Take action. Science suggests that we regret what we don’t do much more than we regret...
One curious finding from recent social psychology research is that human beings tend to be very influenced by their “inner circles.” Your closest friends, family members and associates have an outsized effect not just on the “nuts and bolts” of your life, but also on...