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When Your Romantic Partner Has a Serious Disease: 5 questions to help you decide what to do

Perhaps nothing tests a relationship more than a serious illness.

I’ve seen clients react in the full range of ways: from stopping their life to care for their partner to divorcing him. Many people choose a middle ground: providing some emotional support, taking the partner to doctors’ appointments, handling some of the day-to-day, but not so much as to seriously impede their life. They often hire help.

How do you figure out what’s right for you? Perhaps the questions I ask in my Psychology Today article today will help:

Loneliness: Figuring out why and what to do about it

Many people go through periods, maybe long periods, feeling lonely. Perhaps the questions I ask in my Psychology Today article today can help.

The Weather and You Making the most of it, psychologically and practically

Both psychologically and practically, weather affects us all, every day of our lives. Are you making the most of its good and minimizing the impact of its bad. My Psychology Today article today aims to help.

The Case for Self-Denial: The most rewarding way to live?

The standard view is that the path to the life well-led is furthered by pleasure: material, social, entertainment.

Under-considered is the life of self-denial: poverty, endless giving expecting nothing in return, the only pleasure being in feeling virtuous. I make the case in my Psychology Today article today.

 

Partygoing for Introverts

With COVID subsiding at least for now, people are more comfortable throwing parties. So the introvert has less excuse for begging off. If you'd like to feel better about going, I offer tactics in my Psychology Today article today.

Getting to Continue to Work Remotely

Many people have come to prefer working at home to having to brave the commute for the privilege of sitting in a cube farm where you can’t even hear yourself think.

But now, employers are often summoning employees back to the office. If you’d rather work from home, my Psychology Today article today might help.

Finding an Exercise Routine You’ll Stay With

Yes, yes, we all know we need to exercise, but it’s tough to do it often enough. Perhaps one or more of the ideas in my Psychology Today article today will help.

Friends Over Family? A look at society's most exalted institution

That's the topic of my Psychology Today article today.

Getting Stuff Done

A client three days ago lamented not getting enough done. This article distills how I tried to help. She wrote me today to say that our session helped a lot. This article provides the essence of that session. Perhaps it contains something that will help you get more done.

Non-Obvious Reasons You May Be Tired

Do you sense that you’re more fatigued that you should be? And your doctor has checked you out and there’s nothing wrong physically. What might you do?  My Psychology Today article today suggests possible reasons and solutions.