I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Why Family Therapy...because it deals with family pain.

I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment, humor, tact, love, wisdom, awareness, and knowledge. At the same time, it holds the possibility for the most rewarding, joyous experience of a lifetime, namely, that of being successful guides to a new and unique human being.

You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.

Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.