Many people have traumatic experiences during childhood and must then deal with shame, loss, hostility, and other complex ramifications.

Closeness, rivalry, support, connection, control, criticism, jealousy, misunderstandings, misinterpretations of intent — what people want from family relationships and what they experience in them often fail to match.

Across countries, races, religions, and socio-economic levels, child abuse is distressingly common. Abuse can be physical, emotional, and/or sexual. It can continue in a family from generation to generation until someone steps forward to confront it.

Fred and Jeri Abrams understand the pain of losing your spouse and have some very useful suggestions for reducing the suffering that accompanies it.

Being human includes having biases. Bias originates in the evolutionary inclination to distinguish “friend” (someone like members of my group) from “foe” (someone different from my group) in order to survive.

Retirement has often been viewed as the end to a working career, but today it more likely seen as a new beginning. The road to retirement is seldom smooth.

We live in the age of helicopter parents and tiger moms. But, more and more, the evidence shows that by doing everything we can to protect our cherished children from failure we are, in fact, not giving them the tools they need to succeed.

Attraction knows no boundaries. Relationships that cross culture, religion, nationality, or other differences can be enriching as well as challenging.