Dating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date.

Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break the rule. The parent then corrects and disciplines. The child breaks the rule again, and the parent manages the consequences and empathy that then turn the rule into reality and internal structure for the child.

The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.

Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.

Spouses in healthy relationships cherish each other's space and are champions of each other's causes.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

For someone's character to grow, it has to be free from internal attack. Falling down never stopped children from developing. But getting yelled at, criticized, and put down can stop them for life.