Is your relationship suffering from a mid-winter deep freeze?

Has your passion grown colder with each passing snow storm?

Are you not hot to trot by Valentine’s day?

After multiple snowstorms, endless shoveling, ice covered cars, screaming kids out of school, missed days of work, and weeks of feeling cooped up with each other, and maybe even a good case of the flu, stress levels, irritability, and depression are challenging most of us by mid-winter.  The emotional deep freeze of winter can turn even the most loving relationship into a bad case of “couple cabin fever” by Valentine’s Day.  With the heat and carefree feeling of summer love a very distant memory, it can be a struggle to keep the flame of passion and intimate connection burning in the winter months.

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Have you already fallen off the “New Year’s Resolution” wagon and can’t get up? Are you secretly continuing to eat those leftover holiday goodies when no one is looking? Are you already running out of the gym in sheer terror after only a week? Are you ignoring your misery and settling back into the comfort of an unhappy relationship? Is your New Year’s resolution list destined to become lining in your kitty’s litter box? Join the club!

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Duck for cover! Summer and the family vacation season are upon us! Despite those visions of lounging by the pool, drink in hand, kids quietly playing in the sand as you snooze, your family vacation can be a stress filled recipe for disaster! Are your stressors taking over and ruining your summer family activities? Vacation season can turn into a frenzy of family feuds and frenzy rather than fun. The result: total overload and exhaustion by Labor Day! Just in time to start back to the hectic school and work routine! Read more »

Adopted Child Given Hot Sauce by Dr. Phil Guest

By

Dr. Deb Castaldo

“The media reports regarding the case of the adopted child who was given hot sauce may be missing major aspects of this story. This may not simply be a case of possible child abuse and poor parenting.”

While abuse is NEVER an acceptable solution, children adopted from Russia ad other countries and who have lived in orphanages and/or multiple homes often have a history of serious abuse and neglect and can be extremely difficult if not impossible to parent in a family. Read more »

With the greatly anticipated royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton only weeks away, many are wondering if the young royals’ love is the real deal, and will it stand the test of time.

So far, their ten year relationship looks like it is no fleeting thing. Will and Kate seem to have done all the right stuff to create a solid foundation and ensure a happily married future.

We “commoners”, whether old or young, can take a lesson from this royal love story. Straight from observations of Will and Kate, here are eight tips for creating your own royal love story: Read more »

Why Long Term Marriages Crash by Dr. Debra Castaldo, Ph.D. With the recent news that Arnold and Maria Schwarzenegger are separating after a twenty five year year marriage, many of us are wondering how it is that couples lose the love found long ago? Whether married 25 years or dating 25 days, all relationships have the potential to crash. Worn out by the daily grind of family life and responsibilities, couples can easily lose the love found years before. Read more »

Copyright: Dr. Deb Castaldo, 2011

Royal Love Lessons from Will and Kate

Is it really possible to find a prince without kissing all those nasty frogs?

How about going straight to kissing the prince?

With the greatly anticipated royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in April 2011many women are befuddled about where to find a prince and how to avoid all those nasty commitment – phobic frogs in the first place!

The “princess- to – be” has seemed to have found a guy who not only is a prince by birth, but who also has all the right stuff to be a REAL Prince Charming and create a solid foundation for a happily married future. Read more »