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Do One Thing Everyday That Scares You
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How to Get Kids to do Their Chores when one Parent isn’t Supportive
Question: My husband lets our 10-year-old son do whatever he wants. My husband picks up after him and doesn’t ask him to do any chores. And my son just sits and plays video games. When I try to coax...
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Balancing My Marriage and a Scalpel: Lessons Learned as a General Surgery...
All bleeding stops…eventually. So the saying goes. Medical residency is tough–it’s physically, emotionally and intellectually exhausting. The demands of medical training consume our time and our...
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5 Reasons Why You Should Join the AMA Alliance
(Donna Rovito on the left and Briana Wessell on the right) Last month I had the privilege of speaking about Medical Marriages at the national 2015 AMA Alliance Annual Meeting. This was my first real...
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How to Discuss Family Needs When Husband Travels a lot
Question: My husband travels a lot and puts in long workdays. We often don’t have the time or energy to get on the same page about schedules or stay connected about the day-to-day events. How can I...
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Ask a Therapist: Setting Boundaries with Mom
Question: My mother is always wanting to help me. I know that sounds like a good thing, but it’s not. It’s suffocating, and I don’t know how to tell her to back off without hurting her feelings....
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The Power of Positive Thinking for Your Marriage
There was a time when I didn’t believe our marriage could survive medicine. Every physician couple I talked to painted a grim picture, full of lonely days and even lonelier nights. Then they would...
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Medical Marriage Help: Caring and Connecting During an Emergency
I spent yesterday evening in the emergency room with my four-year-old son. Four kids, and I have never had to make an ER visit before. I realized that one of the reasons we have never been to the ED...
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Making Moments Matter
It’s finally starting to feel like fall in Florida–well, kind of anyway. It was while I was enjoying the crisper air and smell of newly-fallen leaves that I relearned a lesson I have been learning...
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The Part of Your Relationship You Can’t Afford to Ignore
One of our greatest fears is disconnection. We are terrified that we don’t matter. That we’re not important. That we don’t measure up and that we can’t get it right. And we don’t just feel these...
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7 Strategies for Creating a Successful Holiday Season
Holidays can be an especially hard time for couples, because each holiday inherently comes with its own expectations. One of the challenges everyone faces in their relationships is how to deal with...
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2015 Gift Guide for Doctors
It can be really hard to find the perfect gift for the doctor you love. Last year I posted a gift guide that was chalk full of ideas. If you haven’t seen that one, take a look after you scroll...
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Not All Apologies Are Created Equally
Coreen Roebuck* had just moved for her husband’s residency when she woke up realizing she was going to lose their baby. At 13 weeks pregnant, she knew there was no other reason for her cramping and...
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The New Year’s Resolution You Forgot to Make
It’s that time of year. Everyone is making resolutions, thinking carefully about how they want the next 365 days to be different from years past. As I have thought about my own resolutions this year,...
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3 Steps to Improving Your Non-Verbal Communication
Couples are often unaware of how incredibly attuned we are to each other’s non-verbal cues–and of how powerfully those cues impact our sense of security in our relationships. I saw this scenario play...
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Making Job Decisions Together
Finding a job–especially that first “real job” out of medical training–is stressful and exciting all at the same time. You’ve both sacrificed for so many years and are anxious to have the hard times...
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Simple Steps to Avoid Parallel Living
Question: We are second year medical students. Our first year of medical school was rough and we have lots of layers to our situation. One of them is that we have two kids under 4-years-old and we...
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Keeping Intimacy Alive – Q&A
Question: I don’t know how to make [physical] intimacy a priority in our relationship. My husband is often gone, and when he is home, I’m either too tired or not interested because we haven’t been...
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Is a Marriage Conference Worth it? {What the Participants Say}
I hope you had a wonderful Valentines weekend. I missed my usual Friday post because I was leading a two-day marriage conference this weekend. What a remarkable experience we had! We tune up...
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Not Allowing Technology to Rule Your Life
It’s funny for me to tell our children about the days when there was no email, internet, or cell phones. I certainly don’t feel very old—I’m not very old!—but those days feel like a lifetime ago....
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