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Marriage and Relationships

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Chaya is frightened of being like her mother whom she considers a push-over. She prefers to be like her father who is the dominant one in the family.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Is mirror imaging something that is important for child development?

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Children learn more from what we do than from what we say.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Ultimately we don't truly understand Hashem's plan. All we can do is our hishtadlus.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

My wife comes from a dysfunctional home where her mother always put her father down.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Young people today do not realize how bad anti-Semitism can be.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Many people have told me that they wished they would have purchased life insurance when they were younger and in better health.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

.He tells me he feels terrible and does not mean to hurt me.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

You are now being challenged to believe in Hashem and to daven even though you are in great pain.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

My mother-in-law and I have had our problems since the beginning of our marriage.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Often people think that when yo hit rock bottom, divorce is the only option.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

I feel terrible for her and I tell her to relax, but she is a perfectionist. The baby and her schedule drain her completely.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Where is her empathy and understanding for me?

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

I so wish my husband respected and appreciated me for what I do...

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Sometimes when looking at our lives we see nothing but an empty box, but if we look deeper, we will find the kisses.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Having a constant critic around is like having someone hitting you over the head on a regular basis.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Their constant favoring of our family only breeds jealousy and hostility.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

...Israel is a beacon of light in a sea of Islamic darkness...

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Company can rob your children of special attention and time with you.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

I am now engaged to a loving, wonderful woman who is really not my imago.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

The conversations always start with "Do you have kids?"

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Maybe my letter with inspire people to appreciate what they have.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Being in a warm and welcoming community is so important.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

For years now, I have disagreed with him and despised his every word and action.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Whenever we are together, I come home sad.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

It seems as if all we are doing is copying the ways of other nations.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

We have been made to feel socially isolated and only marginally important.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

After struggling with depression for many years, I realized that my family was filled with toxic people.

Marriage and Relationships

Mindfulness And Hypnosis

By Moishe Herskowitz

Children who grow up with a parent who functions this way will often have issues of childhood abandonment, and live in a sort of black and white world.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

I love them all, but having 10 grandchildren under the age of 10 means it gets really wild.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

It takes only one click to reach an inappropriate website and be exposed to...

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

How could they have just sent him back with a warning?

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Having a strong and positive relationship with your children is like an insurance policy.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Not having kids right now has not been a matter of choice for us.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

The fighting is out of control and upsets my wife very much.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Our children started acting out in ways we didn't understand.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Life may be challenging, but the light of Torah and Yiddishkeit will shine in you.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

The purposely look down and away if I try to smile in their direction.

Marriage and Relationships

Constructive Anger

By Leah Field

Crying is the body’s natural way of releasing painful emotions and then healing.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

We went for therapy many years ago and today people refer to us as a couple with a very good marriage.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

I want us to be able to grow together and get closer to Hashem.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Orphans need someone whom they can really pour their heart out to.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

The phone was clearly a privilege and it's important for teenagers to learn about consequences, accountability and trust.

Marriage and Relationships

What I Wish You Knew About Divorce

By Alanna Fine

A large part of me was left wondering why his parents didn’t explain what divorce was and why we had to be his introduction to the topic.

Marriage and Relationships

Old News In A New Age: Online Dating For Cheating Spouses

By Esther M. Schonfeld

They see these sites and all the other avenues available on the web as part of a fantasy world and convince themselves that they will not be held accountable for their actio

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

A "party" atmosphere has invaded our celebrations.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

My husband and I found something that really shocked us.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

To us it sounded like a reasonable plan and though her principal thought we were being naive, she acquiesced to our wishes.

Marriage and Relationships

Affluenza

By Rabbi M. Gary Neuman

Affluenza is not about wealth. It is about a generation of parents who want to make their children so "happy" that they fail them miserably.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

While it is imprtant to think out of the box, we must also be cognizant of people's wants and needs.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

My love for my sister is very deep and I want her to learn to enjoy her life.

Marriage and Relationships

Solid Marriages

By Rabbi M. Gary Neuman

One reason that G-d waited to create Eve was because it was not enough for G-d to know that man needed a wife.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

We have the same ridiculous fights over and over again...

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Please, Dr. Respler, tell people to mind their own business.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

"I know people mean well... but..."

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Often a child's worst fears emerge right before sleep.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

How could he fight with someone who wasn't fighting back?

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

People who have higher credit scores are more likely to form committed relationships.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Quality time means giving your undivided attention to your spouse.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

​Average intelligence does not connote mediocrity and people are frequently mistaken when they think that someone with average intelligence is not going to really succeed in life.

Marriage and Relationships

On The Road To Shalom Bayit

By Moishe Herskowitz

The brain has two major functions and they are, put simply, “Am I Safe,” or “Am I in Danger?”

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

When you tell a shadchan that you want a young man with a plan or an idea of how he will support his family, the conversation is over.

Marriage and Relationships

You Just Received A Hazmana – A Summons To Beis Din: What Do You Do?

By Margaret E. Retter

Since most women do not have a clue what to do when they receive a hazmana, we will try to allay the fears they might have.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

I think it's time that we as a community reconsider our shidduch situation.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Realistic expectations are integral as they help children feel confident when they are successfully met.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

It was a terrible and horrifying experience for me that I will never forget.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Unconditional love is something we all crave. We resent feeling that we are loved because of our achievements or the money we earn, and the roots of this message start when children are young.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

I realized that this change is a good thing and I should be happy.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

The most powerful message you gave me was to think about how to make the person I am dating feel special when he is around me.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

I think the only way to reach your husband is through positive reinforcement.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

I can't seem to say anything and I do not know what to do.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Marriage is hard work. My husband and I both had to change the way in which we behaved.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

He constantly bad mouths me and encourages them to disobey me.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

I can feel the tears starting to form...

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

We must compliment our children on their internal beauty so they will feel that their character has worth and value.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

My granddaughter is in the basement for six hours, never taken outside and never held.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

There is halacha and then what is in the spirit of halacha.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Arguments against giving any vaccines are naive and hollow.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Don't focus on the negatives, that's the easy thing to do.

Marriage and Relationships

Odysseus And Jonah Help During A Fateful Journey

By Dr. Judith S. Bendheim Guedalia

What in my experiential memory can help me understand what is being said to me and some of the wound beyond the bandages I see?

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Daf Yomi

By Rabbi Yaakov Klass

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