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For the Coupledom: How to Take Ownership and Why It Is So Scary

For the Coupledom: How to Take Ownership and Why It Is So Scary

By Jill Edelman . 03/13/2020

Reader Beware: This post is not intended for the quick fixers or the folks who find exploration of emotion boring! The hardest psychological endeavor in the couples therapy process is the act of taking ownership for perceived hurtful behaviors to one’s partner. Seconds after a spouse expresses their feelings, with lightning speed, their partner launches […]

Lying While Cycling: Do Liars Change?

Lying While Cycling: Do Liars Change?

By Jill Edelman . 02/01/2013

Big Stakes Question: Will I ever be able to trust you again? Lies, a pattern of lying, finally exposed and then at last a forced coming clean; what does any of that mean? Frankly there is no more powerful issue in couples therapy – in all interpersonal linkages, than this question: Do liars change? Lance […]

You Don’t Need The FBI to Out Your Affair: Mechanisms of Denial

You Don’t Need The FBI to Out Your Affair: Mechanisms of Denial

By Jill Edelman . 11/14/2012

Lordy, Lordy: General Petraeus, General Allen, authors, triathlon athletes, West Point, Harvard, Tampa, military hostesses, radiologists, the FBI, a colossal mess for the U.S. And we were just trying to gain some footing after the tumult and havoc of Sandy and Election 2012. Nope, there is no peace for the human psyche when under the […]

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