What happens when the Life of our relationship dies? While I work tirelessly to enable couples to reconnect their relationship and spend quality happy years in love, there are some couples who simply should not remain together or where one person has decided to call it quits. How then do we move on with life after death of your relationship? When the decision finally comes to separate away from the relationship, [...]
What is the Reason Men Cheat? Research tells us that 54% of men and 46% of women cheat, or have an affair, on their partner. Many find this interesting. The problem with this statistic is it has failed to ask the correct questions, therefore, no presenting correct results. From my 15 years’ therapeutic experience there is, of course, many men and women who cheat, however, the majority are men. The difference [...]
Should All Homework be Banned? Many parents complain when their child arrives home with homework to complete. I hear parents indicating that education should be taught at school they have no time to participate in homework activities with their child their child is too busy with after school activities to attend to more academic tasks after school the school is to educate their child academically And the excuses continue. Let [...]
May 19th 2016, Sydney Australia: For Immediate Release. By Bronwyn Cox; Dead Horse Branding. It would be easy to look at The Voice Australia season 3 winner, Anja Nissen, and think her life must be perfect. But you’d be wrong. Like the rest of us, Anja has to navigate relationships, her career and other life challenges, and she opens up about her experiences in a frank new conversation [...]
Not all stress is bad for children. A certain level of stress can teach our children resilience. Stress is part of life, often everyday life. Our body can react under stress from having to get ready for the school bus, fear of running late and getting into trouble for something, worried about standing in front of the class to present your project, or being concerned if you are going to swim [...]
I was told recently of a new study stating that women did 70% more unpaid work in the home than the male partner. What a revelation; if anyone didn’t already know that. I question the money wasted on such an obvious statement. This ‘study’ also apparently revealed the reasons why. It indicated that the male child was unable to empty a dishwasher until 11 years old, vacuum until 15 years [...]
Leaving Your Relationship the right way There can be a hundred reasons to leave your relationship and the absolute best way is when both partners decide their relationship is ending and both make a conscious decision to un-couple. The eight most common reasons people choose to separate from their current partner can include: Trust has been broken Interests are so wide apart the partners have less in common than more [...]
How do we define the difference between the two, and is there really a difference? We seem to label everything these days as a mental illness. The definition of a mental illness is a serious disorder in a person's behaviour or thinking. An emotional disorder affects a person’s daily functioning. The Mayo Clinic defines mental illness as disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior. Examples of mental illness include [...]
How do we know if we have truly found Real Love? Real love is a wonderful commitment that two people make to love and cherish the other person and always make each other happy. It is different to Lust, different to Infatuation and very different to Ownership of another. We ‘choose’ that special person to share our most intimate thoughts and secrets with because they will always be there with us, always [...]
Imagine if you were an old person now and looked back at your life.Would you have spent more time Being not Doing… Look back at what you did, how you lived, how you responded and reacted to others and events, the effort you placed onto certain things. Would you be happy with all that or would you have done something different? Hindsight, of course, is a wonderful thing, yet I am [...]
When we are about to get married or have recently married, I ask “What Marriage Expectations do you have for your relationship?’ Most of the time I get blank stares, even asked from some couples, ‘are we supposed to have one?’ Fact is, Yes, you should. Why should you? To know what it is you want and expect and to then work towards achieving it. If we have no real expectation, [...]
Why is it that so many couples are unable to agree on things to do together? I am continually saddened to see couples from their 40’s plus in distress because either him or her want to ‘do things’ in their free time or even when they plan to retire. One partner may want to trek, ride a camel, go white water rafting, parachute, anything that takes some effort or energy. [...]
