Marriage Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft In our last blog post — How Did You Choose Your Partner? — we talked about attachment styles and how they affect your choice of a romantic partner. In short, those with a secure attachment...

Marriage Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Do you ever think about “give and take” in a relationship? Many people would probably give a reflexive response to a question about give-and-take by saying something like, “Oh yes, it’s...

Marriage Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. There are all kinds of debates about what exactly influences and shapes our behavior. From the fundamental idea of “nature versus nurture,” we know that there are usually...

Marriage Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. If you’ve been through a romantic relationship or two, you probably know that the initial phase of infatuation eventually fades and a less intense but more sustainable...

Marriage Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. You may have read about or even researched various personality types. A relatively well known example is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) developed by Isabel Myers and...

Marriage Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc.  Let’s take a show of hands — how long were you in a romantic relationship before you realized that keeping things upbeat required a little work? A couple months? Six months? A...

Marriage Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. Since time immemorial the poets have told us a simple truth: Love is blind. Scientists, with their modern sensibilities, give us the reason for the poetic insight: infatuation...

Marriage Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. Lewis Howes is a bestselling author who uses a variety of media channels to deliver his message: You Were Born For Greatness. Psychotherapist and bestselling author Esther...

Marriage Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. If you think back to a psychology class in college, or maybe you just enjoy reading widely, you may remember coming across experiments where monkeys were treated unfairly. In a...

Marriage Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc.  A recent buzz phrase in business consulting is collaborative communication. With a little reflection on both terms, you can easily get an idea of what the concept is all...