Healthy Marriage During Pregnancy

by Marina Edelman, LMFT | Feb 22, 2022 | anxiety, Blog, couples, couples counseling, group, love, marriage, pregnancy

Mood Swings During Pregnancy Are Common One big reason for pregnancy mood swings is a women’s rapidly changing hormones, specifically estrogen and progesterone. Estrogen, associated with serotonin, levels soar during the first trimester and can cause emotional...

Gray Divorce

by Marina Edelman, LMFT | Aug 26, 2021 | Blog, couples, divorce, mediation

Divorce can be hard and have a negative impact. But the same can be said for staying in a long-term bad marriage. Over the last 20 years divorce rates have been declining. A striking contrast to this trend is a phenomenon known as the “Gray Divorce.” Gray divorce...

9 Ways to Strengthen Your Connection with Your Partner

by Marina Edelman, LMFT | May 29, 2020 | Blog, couples, marriage

Wouldn’t it be great if relationships came with an “easy button” like so many other things in our tech-heavy world? So many things run on autopilot these days: planes, phones, and even cars that can drive themselves! In this world where many things work well with...

How Mindfulness Exercises Can Strengthen Your Relationship

by Marina Edelman, LMFT | May 26, 2020 | anxiety, Blog, couples, mindfulness

Staying mindful and present while living in quarantine has proven extremely difficult for most of us. With so much uncertainty in the air and vague estimations of when life can begin to resemble normalcy, it’s hard to stop ourselves from overthinking and giving in to...

Bringing Passion Back to a Sexless Marriage

by Marina Edelman, LMFT | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog, couples, marriage

Sitcoms lead us to believe that women pretend to have headaches to avoid sex. But more and more often I encounter couples where the man is either not interested or is unable to perform sexually. Whether it’s you or your spouse who doesn’t want to initiate sex,...

Make sure you are fighting based on reality not on assumptions

by Marina Edelman, LMFT | Oct 4, 2019 | Blog, couples, divorce, marriage

Fighting is a common practice in relationships. Couples fight and disagree all the time. The smallest disagreement can boil over into World War III. Make sure you are fighting about real things and not assumptions. Common reasons couples fight are: Lack of Sex. Lack...