Archive for January 2010

Do I need relationship help?

My wife follows my blog, and asked me the other day if I felt we needed relationship help. “It sure sounds it from the way you write your posts” she said. “Is everything OK?”

Is a new model for marriage emerging?

Tara Parker-Pope writing in the New York Times today notes that the very nature of marriage is shifting. That’s also a central theme from Dr. Harville Hendrix, Imago co-founder, who believes that the statistics of marriage breakdown simply indicate a shift to a new model of marriage, and a new role for marriage in society

Why Dialogue is such great relationship help

Imago Dialogue for couples is something quite specific and quite structured. At least, its best for it to be structured when you are just learning it, and whenever the subject is hard. Oh! We’re talking about the field of intimate relationships- the subject has a tendency to be quite tricky, don’t you find?!

Relationship help is the fast track to happiness

Weiner travelled to the world’s happiest places and told WorldHum that “Many countries around the world seem to grasp this notion that happiness is relational—that we derive much of our joy from our connections to other people

Relationship Quizzes go interactive with Imago

In these interactive Relationship Quizzes, instead of checking off boxes on a form, you get to talk with an Avatar, who sympathetically asks you about some of your past emotional experience, especially in the home where you grew up.

Marriage Counseling meets Michelangelo

The Michelangelo phenomenon views each of us like a block of marble, and inside is our ideal self, just waiting to be fully revealed. If you recall Michelangelo said that the sculpture already existed inside the marble, and his job was just to make it visible. Like Michelangelo, our partners can help shape us so that it is this ideal self that emerges in all its fullness and aliveness. That’s interesting to me because its another way of looking at the goals of Imago marriage counseling

Marriage Advice from France – take a mistress

The latest Marriage Advice from France is that infidelity may help your marriage. In Imago we love to consider all perspectives, so let’s take a moment to look at what France’s leading psychologist Maryse Vaillant is saying.