by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Mar 1, 2026 | Relationships |
A few nights ago at dinner the topic of marriage came up. Our younger son, Asher, having witnessed many couples either struggling or divorced over his sixteen years, said, “Doesn’t seem like there are a lot of happy marriages.” My husband, Daev, and...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Apr 13, 2025 | Relationships |
Clients often ask, “Can you teach me about marriage? I didn’t grow up with healthy role-models and I don’t know what a healthy marriage looks like.” Very few people do. In the absence of healthy role-models in our childhood home, many of us...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jul 14, 2024 | Relationships |
I recently re-read a novel called The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer. I first read it years ago, and loved it, but one of the reasons why I enjoy re-reading books is because we’re never standing in the same spot in the river of life; whatever I gleaned from the...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | May 20, 2018 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Inspiration Collections, Relationships, Wedding/marriage transition |
There are moments in my marriage that take my breath away. Last Sunday on Mother’s Day, the four of us spent several hours working on my garden. My garden is one of my sanctuaries, but every year the grass from the lawn finds its way into my vegetable beds and...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Apr 1, 2018 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Relationships |
Every day that I work with clients struggling with relationship anxiety I find myself saying some version of, “Of course you’re scared. Loving is the scariest thing we do.” As I’ve written about several times on this blog, fear doesn’t...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 18, 2010 | Wedding/marriage transition |
The topic of projection arises frequently on this blog and in my counseling work with clients struggling through the wedding transition. The truth is that any time you’re in a intimate relationship with a real person (as opposed to infatuated with someone...
