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Facebook Live Q&A with Dr. Huizenga

I’ve decided to take advantage of Facebook Live and offer an opportunity for people to get their questions answered by me personally. The first Live video was a success! The recording is available below. Here are a few of the questions that were answered during the session: “What can the betrayed wife do about the …

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What it takes to Save Your Marriage

Think Bigger! How do you save your marriage? You will be disappointed as you pursue conventional marital advice. We’ been handing out the same advice for the past 30 years and the divorce rates still hovers at 50%. Look around you. How many authentically happy couples do you see? Here are the 3 overarching suggestions …

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The 3 Beliefs that Ruin a Marriage or Relationship

Your Marriage Breaking? Shattered? Your marriage is breaking. You don’t want it to break, but it feels like each day a new piece shatters. Do you sometimes feel like the door of love, acceptance and intimacy has been slammed shut in your face? You feel unappreciated, alone, ignored and emotionally light years removed from your …

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Top 10 Benefits of Relationship Coaching

I’m giving you the top 10 practical benefits of personal one-on-one coaching. (These are the first 10 that came to my mind as I reflected on my journey as a Marriage and Family Therapist since 1981 logging over 25,000 direct client hours.) Here’s a little personal info. I have two brothers-in-law. One is a medical …

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17 Steps for Coping with an Abusive (or Cheating) Spouse

How much do you tolerate with an abusive spouse? What have you put up with? In this blog I list 17 steps for coping with a spouse that exhibits addictive behaviors. Frequently, addictive behaviors increasingly over time lead to abuse thrown in your direction. 17 Steps for Coping with an Abusive (or Cheating) Spouse 1. …

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Help for Troubled Relationships

Warning: in this article I’m taking a very critical look at conventional self help and professional counseling for troubled relationships. I saw what I perceived to be the demise of the therapeutic community’s capacity to be effective back in the 90’s when I served on the State Board for Marriage and Family Therapy. It was …

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Why “Working on Your Marriage” Will Actually KILL Your Marriage

The First Radical Unconventional Mind Twisting Step to EASY LOVE …Stop Trying to Fix Your Marriage Don’t dive in! If your marriage is in shambles, broken and and you are emotionally falling apart, don’t… please don’t… jump in and try to fix it. No date nights. No plans for a romantic getaway. No plea for …

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14 Common Marriage Killers

I’ve hired a researcher and writer to provide you with typical information related to marriage and relationships. These posts will not go into as much depth as I do, for obvious reasons. This post, 14 Common Marriage Killers, hopefully will stimulate your thinking about what conditions or situations in your marriage trigger the upset and …

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1 EASY Way to Get a Drastically Different Response from your Cheating Spouse

I had a reader and someone I had coached email me the other day with an interesting result to a shift in communication she tried with her husband. Her husband was having an “I don’t want to say no” type of affair. This type of affair often is grounded in a sense of entitlement, a …

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“I Love You but am Not ‘In Love’ With You”: What Does That REALLY Mean?!

“I Love You but am Not ‘In Love’ With You”: What Does That REALLY Mean?! Here are a few possible underlying meanings or distinctions for the “I Love You but am Not In Love with You” outburst. 1. An ongoing or possible affair relationship. Your spouse may have a strong attraction to another person, and …

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