by Catherine E. Aponte PsY.D. | Feb 17, 2020 | Interact Don't Transact
ASSESSING HOW YOU RELATE TO ONE ANOTHER How you feel about your marriage depends on how you and your partner relate to each other—your interpersonal relationship. The interpersonal relationship between romantic partners is about how you ask for what you want, how...
by Catherine E. Aponte PsY.D. | Jan 25, 2020 | Interact Don't Transact, The New " Do"
Things are different—Match.com has just released its eighth annual Singles in America study, which describes the evolving rules of dating.[1] Gadoua and Larson wrote a book, The New ‘I Do,’ describing much-needed alternatives to the one-size-fits-all traditional...
by Catherine E. Aponte PsY.D. | Nov 11, 2019 | Interact Don't Transact
Re-thinking marriage can help you and your partner can create the kind of life you want together—and in the process help change our society. I think about marriage as partners negotiating collaboratively their individual and joint life plans—plans that are not...
by Catherine E. Aponte PsY.D. | Sep 10, 2019 | Interact Don't Transact
Interact, Don’t Transact With Your Spouse! If you want a marriage that supports you and your spouse as individuals while also enhancing your relationship, you need to know the difference between a transactional marriage and a marriage that is based on interacting with...