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by Rhett Smith on July 6, 2010
Striving for a healthy, thriving marriage–and simply trying to avoid divorce are two very different goals for therapy. One is proactive and the other is reactive. I’ve noticed that the proactive group is often quicker to get professional help for their marriage than the latter group. The reactive group often finds themselves in the counseling [...]
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by Rhett Smith on June 18, 2010
I feel like I do some of my best thinking and reflecting while out on a run. And while I was running yesterday a few stanzas from the Coldplay song, What If? really stuck out to me… What if you should decide That you don’t want me there by your side That you don’t want [...]
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by Rhett Smith on June 11, 2010
“Without truth there can be no intimacy, because without truth you wind up sharing lies or delusions. Without intimacy there can be no relationship. When two partners share their true selves, protecting self and others by the correct practice of boundaries, the miracle of spirituality is present.” (The Intimacy Factor, pp. xvi) Those words are [...]
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by Rhett Smith on April 22, 2010
[image by Bidrohi Hirok] Technological Paradox One of the glaring paradoxes in my use of technology/social media, is that it has both the ability to make me feel connected and intimate with others, while at the same time feeling isolated, alienated and lonely. I think that is why you have seen me struggle with my [...]
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by Rhett Smith on April 5, 2010
[image by sass_face] Let me start this post with an example. I’m the type of person who if I’m going to try and be disciplined about not eating junk food, then it’s much better I tell my wife if we just don’t buy and have junk food in the house, rather than me trying to [...]
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by Rhett Smith on March 22, 2010
[image by globevisions] One of the things that seems to be a common trend among couples I work with in therapy is that there is an assumption about the relational boundaries that each of them will/are keeping. There is an assumption, but rarely something they have ever actually discussed. I think they are rarely discussed [...]
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by Rhett Smith on March 10, 2010
You ever read a really great book? So great that you just want to underline all of it? That’s how I felt about this article that I came across some time last week, Obsessed with smartphones, oblivious to the here and now — and to be honest…it freaked me out a bit. Since I am [...]
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by Rhett Smith on March 5, 2010
I really appreciate Chad and Sarah opening up so much of their life with us this week. One of the reasons that I wanted to interview them was because I think that their story is, and can be so helpful to many other couples out there — and on so many levels. And if you [...]
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by Rhett Smith on March 3, 2010
To read part 1 of my interview with Sarah and Chad Markley, read here. In the interview today, I really wanted to focus on some of the questions that arose for me as I read Sarah’s blog posts about their story. It was in these blog entries that I really got a sense of a [...]
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by Rhett Smith on March 2, 2010
There are people online that I have never met in person, but that I feel like I know them. And those people I one day look forward to meeting in person. Just two of those people are Chad and Sarah Markley. I randomly came across Chad online one day because we were following each other [...]
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