Healing the Heart: Affair Recovery
Kate Motaung2025-07-18T11:15:13-07:00Few things are as painful as the heartbreak caused by an affair. We get married believing that something like that could never happen in our lives. The reality is [...]
Recipe for Recovery: Practical Strategies to Reset After an Emotional Affair
Dr. Shane Patrick, Kate Motaung2025-03-18T21:55:46-07:00When we make our marital vows and declare that we will forsake all others, we tend to view it as a nod to the threats that infidelity poses. What [...]
Toxic Traits in a Relationship to Look Out For
Dr. Shane Patrick, Kate Motaung2025-02-26T22:23:30-08:00Relationships of all kinds bring together people who may have various similarities and differences that make their dynamic interesting. These differences may be in temperament, personality, life experiences, culture, [...]
4 Ways to Help Your Spouse Deal with Emotional Abandonment
Kate Motaung2025-05-07T13:13:27-07:00Emotional abandonment can be a difficult issue to resolve. Emotional abandonment comes from many different sources. People who feel abandoned due to childhood trauma or a lack of emotional availability [...]
Infidelity and Fidelity: What Are They and How Do They Look?
Timothy Miller, Kate Motaung2024-12-20T02:08:35-08:00Loyalty and trust are the bedrock of relationships, particularly marital relationships. When that is broken there is a lot of fear, anxiety, and sorrow to work through. Talking about [...]
Relationship Advice: Garbage In, Garbage Out
David Daroff, Kate Motaung2024-12-26T04:22:37-08:00Nearly every day doing counseling I run into people who need relationship advice because of issues they are having. Today, I received a note from a client (that I [...]
Figuring Out Physical Intimacy After Infidelity
Michelle Thorsteinson, Kate Motaung2024-12-26T04:26:04-08:00Few things can damage a committed relationship more than infidelity. The closeness that a couple cultivates can be shattered through an affair, regardless of the length of that affair or [...]
7 Causes of Resentment in Marriage
Angela Yoon, Kate Motaung2024-11-14T04:45:53-08:00Most couples get married with the hope of a, “happily ever after” etched deeply in their hearts and minds. In the early days of marriage, husbands and wives proclaim [...]
Overcoming Offense: Tackling Conflict in Relationships
Kate Motaung2024-11-27T03:37:14-08:00Belonging to a family, whether by birth, faith, or choice, develops connections. These can sometimes be marked with apparent contradictions. They can prove exhilarating, but also exhausting. We love [...]
How to Improve Your Communication in Marriage
Vanessa Franke, Kate Motaung2024-12-23T03:29:41-08:00Do you feel like you and your spouse just cannot get through to each other? Or as if you are speaking different languages? Do you often feel unheard or [...]