The Mental Load: The Compounding Weight of Pandemic Stress & the Various Roles We Play
March, 2020: I get a call from my children’s school. They’re closing the school. They’re closing the after-school program. Two weeks and they’ll re-evaluate after that. Two Weeks. Two Weeks! My mind goes in overdrive. But I have to work…but my spouse has to...
Surviving Your Quarter Life Crisis
If you remember flip phones and unlimited minutes after 8pm, or the pinnacle of early 2000s fashion (bell-bottom jeans and layered tank tops), then you might find yourself as a now twenty-something asking, “When the hell did I become an adult???” They’re not...
Sexual Desire Mismatch: The Hardest, Simplest Fix in Sex Therapy
Why it hurts and how sex therapy helps A new couple walks into my office and here is what they share: Partner A: “I’m so frustrated; it feels like we never have sex anymore. My partner cares more about the kids and their job than making love to me. They...
How Invisible Labor Can Kill Your Relationship
Invisible Labor and How It’s Affecting Your Relationship Perhaps this is the product of my recent “binge-watch” of Desperate Housewives, but nonetheless I find myself fascinated with the phenomenon of “invisible labor”. Invisible labor is an...
