Tamar and Avi are an American couple in their late thirties who made aliya to Israel two years ago with their four children. They presented to couple therapy in distress. They reported that they argued frequently about their children, their in-laws, household tasks and money. Tamar said she felt that Avi took her for granted and had no idea what her life was like. Avi complained, “We hardly ever have sex.”
After a m …
Question: We have a wonderful daughter who is back from seminary, happily working and doing very well BH, but here is the concern...
While my daughter was in high school she started taking on more and more chumras and started becoming more and more frum and shtark. It affected her relationship with her friends, how she dressed, what she ate, (or didn't eat), her sleep, her davening, her ability and confidence in he …
In the Talmud, (Nedarim 20a-b) Rabbi Yochanan Ben Dabai provides some advice about marital sex that he received from ministering angels. Children are born lame, he relates, because, the parents "turned the table upside down" for intercourse. They are born mute because of kissing 'that place' (the genitals), are born deaf because the parents spoke during intercourse, and are born blind due to the man looking at his wif …
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2002
Rochel pulled the covers even more tightly over her head in a futile attempt to drown out the sounds. She knew, without looking, that her father had been drinking too much at the Weinstein’s L’Chaim, and he would be mean tonight. She was dreading the next day, knowing that she would not be able to hide the dark circles under her eyes after a sleepless night. Dark …
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“Why do I have to do all this dumb work? It's so boring. How is this going to help me anyway?”
“Jake, for the 20th time, go do your homework!”
“I'm not going to school, you can't make me.”
Does this sound familiar?
This is a picture of a child resisting and avoiding something in life that makes him miserable. A perfectly natural re …
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Angry cries pierce the silence of a still house in the dead of night. It’s time for that 3 a.m. feeding again. Or is it? Blearily wiping your eyes, you glance at the clock. Actually it’s 1:52, and the baby has been up three times already since midnight. Sighing, you fumble for a pacifier. It’s going to be a long night.
Becoming a new mother, even for the second, …
