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In counseling, you learn that there is absolutely no excuse for bad behavior. Well, let me clarify. There is zero excuse for repeated bad behavior. Something I wrote in my last column gave me pause. The fact that I ended my marriage to take my children out of a position of conflict, yet divorce put…

It’s not complex arthrometric, positive emotions add to our lives while negative emotions subtract from them. When it’s stated this simply, it’s amazing that anyone loses sight of this uncomplicated metric. But people do stay in bad relationships and jobs they hate. They remain, volunteers or caregivers even long after they have burned out and…

My son says something that stops me in my tracks. “Mom, is dad a good person?” I stop what I am doing. I realize that my sons are becoming young men and no longer the children of yesterday. Hence, the ability to actually verbalize this question rather than silently wonder. “Of course,” I say. “I…

In general, when life throws adversity our way, we attack it and solve it as an individual. Somehow in marital problems, we embark on a never-ending quest to solve a problem that involves not one individual but two. It’s a tremendous and detrimental mistake. No one can force another person to grow and evolve in…

We make our way into the church. What is a church to those of us who believe? It is a time for beginnings at baptism. A time for coming of age at confirmation. A time for joining of lives in matrimony. A time for saying our goodbyes when life calls us home. I listen to…

I am watching The Bachelorette I know, why???? It’s like not wanting to look at a horror movie, but you can’t help but peek anyway. You know it’s going to be a bad “B Movie” scene only there’s something oddly compelling about it. We don’t try and understand this phenomenon. We just give into it.…

My sister and I are up late talking. I snuggle in my bed with my chocolate lab Hazel curled at my feet. I share my sense of discouragement in divorce. I tell her that three years in to this no one should have to experience this exaggerated experience. I tell her I am tired. I…

No Catholic wants to become a divorce statistic. People marry because they believe they will defy the odds. Why else would they challenge not only Catholic but overall divorce rates? They do this because they believe in true love. They believe in the Sacrament of Matrimony. They believe that God is the author of marriage…

Seems like a juicy column, right? I’m guessing my high school friends are hoping it is. The teenage years! What a ride! I knew even back then I didn’t want to grow up. Only, even I was smart enough to realize that at least in the area of relationships – I needed to! My high…

My Catholic mother wanted to teach me about love. She wanted desperately to keep her marriage together. To show me an example of beautifully, in-love parents. When it became unabashedly clear that she could not… My mother taught me a different lesson about love. In some ways, an even more remarkable love. My Mother taught…
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