When your spouse is chronically ill, it affects you, too, in so many ways. Most of us notice this spillover effect. Your life gets harder — running more errands, doing more chores, coordinating health care, insuring a steady income, and limitations on travel and the strenuousness of what you can do together. It’s not an easy life, but it feels awful to complain, because no matter how...
The tiny amygdala buried deep in each half of our brains has a lot to do with our emotions and our emotional memories. And sex hormone levels drive a lot of the amygdala’s responses, as you may have noticed when a dirty athletic sock on the kitchen table set off bottle rockets just before your period. Nicole Petersen (UCLA and UC Irvine) and Larry Cahill (UC Irvine) wondered what happens...
I am a widow who got it right the second time. I have been sharing here since February 14, 2006 what I learned from that experience and from positive psychology, marriage research, and my training as a marriage educator.
