I write books about sex and relationships. Too long for some people, I also write articles about sex and relationships. Too long for some people, I now post about sex and relationships on Instagram.
Interested in infidelity, desire, empathy, porn, or orgasm? Here are some of my favorite posts, each with a bit of explanation.
There’s no one right way to navigate infidelity, whether your own or your partner’s.
But there are some wrong ways. After 44 years as a marriage counselor, I’ve seen thousands of people make the same set of mistakes AFTER infidelity has been revealed.
Here are the most common:
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Why do 100,000,000 people care about the trivial incident involving the Coldplay concert’s KissCam?
Why are people participating in, and revelling in, the destruction of these two strangers?
How are we supposed to be fully human in a world like this? And what’s it like for every young person to be growing up in public now?
Chances are, your therapist received almost no clinical training in sexuality–probably less than any other common human activity.
Western culture is full of ambivalence, fear, and misinformation about sex. So we shouldn’t be surprised if your therapist has absorbed a lot of that negativity—which probably wasn’t challenged during their training.
When you add in a strong dose of modern psychology’s political correctness, therapy customers need to be careful if their concerns are sexual. Here are examples…
Every week, I counsel men and women heartbroken over infidelity.
And every week, I try to prevent those people from making big mistakes. If it’s already too late, I help people deal with the consequences of their big mistakes.
Frequently, nearly everyone in the Betrayed’s life is encouraging them to make big mistakes. That can even include their therapist. It most certainly includes the internet and social media.
Every single week for the last 42 years I have spoken with one or more clients who have cheated or been cheated on.
Survey data regarding cheating keeps changing as social definitions of cheating evolve. And the invention of cars, telephones, and the internet—not to mention mixed-gender schools and workplaces—have multiplied people’s opportunities for a broader range of physical and emotional relationships.
I do believe I’ve heard every possible reason for infidelity, and…