Image credit: Photo by jakedobkin on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When I first found out about my husband's addiction, I saw recovery as a destination. Mark would get into recovery, work the 12 Steps and our life and our marriage would go back to something resembling what it had been. I wasn't quite sure [...]
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Couples Counseling for Everyone (or Not)
Image courtesy of tombstonebuilder.com A few years ago, a friend of mine got a divorce. About a year before the divorce, she took a one year work assignment that involved lots of travel. She and her husband would spend months apart, and the stress of separation caused fractures to appear in all the little weak [...]
Giving Birth to Change
Image credit: Photo bymindfulness on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons When I was about eight or nine, I took my beloved uncle's cigarettes away and started flushing them down the toilet. I didn't want him to die prematurely (as he did anyway). Even as a child, I was sure that if I showed him how desperately [...]
