Everyone has heard of the honeymoon stage where everything is roses and cherries.  You are both asking questions to get to know the other one better and both are for the most part on your best behavior or putting your best foot forward.  After this …

Have you ever needed to buy a gift for someone and all of a sudden the best idea came into your mind and you were so excited about the gift you could barely wait to give it to your partner?  But then when you actually …

Our day-to-day lives can be full of stresses such that often, our relationships especially our family relations, suffer.  There might be feelings of too-much-work-to-do and confusions on who-will-do-what while running a home, not finding enough money to pay the bills, family members with health problems, …

Imagine taking a beach ball and pushing it under the water. How do you keep it there? You have to use pressure to hold it down beneath the surface. What happens when you loosen your grip just slightly? It pops to the surface with force.

Dear Stephanie:My husband and I have been married almost 9 years, as our anniversary is in a month. We have a 6 year old daughter and a 2 year old son. We both work and our schedules are very crazy with work, picking up and …

Dear Stephanie: At the end of last year I decided I wanted to make 2016 a very successful year for myself by making a resolutions list and sticking to it. Now that January is almost over I feel I haven’t made much progress and I …

Dear Stephanie: It is that time of year where I feel so conflicted. I love the holidays and spending time with my family but I also seem to get so stressed out and overwhelmed. I feel that my patience level goes down and I tend …

As your “to do” list grows, your stress grows. Thoughts of shopping, spending, cooking, baking, wrapping, family visiting, eating, drinking, not sleeping, loneliness, traveling, packing, meeting expectations, gift giving, gift getting, bickering, fighting and so much more go whirling through your mind.

Dear Stephanie: My husband bought me a gift for no special reason other than he loves me. I am so appreciative of the thought but really hate the gift and this isn’t the first time I haven’t liked what he has given me. I don’t …

Remember when you were younger and you played telephone with your friends by sitting in a circle and having one person share a statement into the ear of the next friend. Each friend continued to whisper what they heard into the next friend’s ear until …