Category Archives: Marriage and Second Marriage advice

Have you ever heard this saying, “Happy wife, happy life?” Or, “It’s my job to make my husband happy?” Or, “He just doesn’t make me happy?” I so often hear people talking about being responsible for someone else’s happiness or holdi...

Melissa Forman is a well-loved local radio and TV personality in Chicago. I've listened to her for decades, and I was even a guest on her TV show a few years ago, but I never knew much about her family until I ran into her at a high school tennis tou...

Most of us have heard of the concept of looking at our relationship with our partner as a garden that we plant and tend. The concept being that as with a garden, we plant the seeds of our relationship with another, and watch as it blooms into somethi...

An email I got from a reader got me thinking, what are the cell phone rules for married couples? Let's start with this: Let’s say your spouse goes into another room and his or her phone is sitting right there on the coffee table. If you start looki...

Peter Davidson's resume is looking really good when it comes to someone qualified to offer marital advice. After all, Davidson has been married to his wife, Beverly for 48 years! For this week's Love Essentially, I interviewed Davidson about his new ...