Dating and Relationships

Relationship Problems? You’re Not Crazy And You’re Not Alone

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Jackie Pilossoph
By Jackie PilossophFounder, Divorced Girl Smiling, Former Chicago Tribune Columnist and Features Reporter, Huffington Post Blogger and TV News Reporter

In this week’s Love Essentially column, I write about what I learned interviewing therapist, David Klow on relationship problems, and how the problems you think are unique to you aren’t.

If you’re having a relationship problem, it’s probably more common than you think by Jackie Pilossoph for Chicago Tribune Media Group

For 13 years, David Klow has been working as an individual and couples’ therapist. The Chicago-based licensed marriage and family therapist, who is also a professor at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, said session after session, he hears common themes.

 

 

Clients “all say similar things in regards to loneliness, disconnection with life, pain in relationships and feeling un-valued,” said Klow. “They are hard on themselves and they think they are horrible.”

Klow said there’s a question almost every client asks him: “Am I crazy?”

“They think there is something wrong with them, and that what they are experiencing falls outside of what they think is normal or healthy in human life,” Klow said.

 

 

Two years ago, in an attempt to answer, “Am I crazy?” Klow began writing letters to his clients.

Click here to read the rest of the article, published in the Chicago Tribune Pioneer Press.

Like this article? Check out, “Does No Sex In A Marriage Justify Divorce?”

 

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Jackie Pilossoph
Jackie PilossophFounder, Divorced Girl Smiling, Former Chicago Tribune Columnist and Features Reporter, Huffington Post Blogger and TV News Reporter

Jackie Pilossoph, former Chicago Tribune Syndicated Columnist (LOVE ESSENTIALLY) is the Founder of DIVORCED GIRL SMILING. Divorced Girl Smiling (DGS), which is a well-known brand and community, offers a list of trusted, vetted divorce professionals, a podcast, articles and the free consult.

Pilossoph, who holds a Masters degree in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University, is a former television news reporter and features reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Her syndicated weekly column, LOVE ESSENTIALLY, was published in The Pioneer Press, The Chicago Tribune, and all Tribune Publishing editions, as well as Better magazine. Pilossoph was also a Huffington Post divorce blogger. Additionally, Pilossoph is the author of “Who Let the Dogs Out: An Empowering, Funny and Inspiring Guide to Dating After Divorce,” available everywhere books can be found.

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