Category: Relationships

A friend was talking to me about feeling pressure to get a relationship to progress after X number of dates (and did Zoom dates count for the tally?). An analogy came to mind: “Counting dates is like counting

Do they give you chizuk?

I need your help! I have to set up a Google Workspace account for my private practice and to do that I need a domain name and I don’t know what to call my practice!

Shidduchim (being single in public, discussing shidduchim, going on dates) can be triggering for many of us. It often activates our core wounds. These are emotional wounds that developed early on

I had a long break from dating over the past year and a half or so, until recently, and it honestly did wonders for me.

I became an aunt at 19 years old and this past Shabbos was that nephew’s bar mitzvah! It’s always interesting to me to see how my feelings vary around different milestones;

I read this beautiful quote from the playwright Thornton Wilder in How To Know a Person.

I recently read How To Know a Person, a book about relationships by author David Brooks. I noted so many lines, I’ll be bringing up this book for weeks to come, most likely.

I just want to take a step back and recognize the wounding that happens for many of us over the years of shidduchim.

I am trying to come up with the right word to describe the part of the journey I am at now. Is it a stuck place? I thought that might be it. But I keep turning this question over, and though I don’t see a clear path before me, I also don’t really feel stuck. Am I simply resting, bobbing on …