by David Bowman, LMFT | Apr 15, 2025 | Featured, Men's Issues, Relationships, Women's Issues
From Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet” “All companionship can consist only in the strengthening of two neighboring solitudes, whereas everything that one is wont to call giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Feb 3, 2021 | Couples, COVID, Dating, Relationships, Singles
For both singles and couples, long periods of isolation or cocooning with just one or two others has taken an unexpected emotional toll. This two-part article examines a few of the ways, some healthy and some questionable—though understandable—that we cope with our...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Feb 3, 2021 | Couples, COVID, Dating, Relationships, Singles
For both singles and couples, long periods of isolation or cocooning with just one or two others have taken an unexpected emotional toll. This two-part article examines a few of the ways, some healthy and some questionable—though understandable—that we cope with our...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Apr 15, 2018 | Featured, LGBT, Relationships, Sex, Therapy
It was a frightening realization of my early 30s that had I not moved away from my family and my hometown when I did, I would already have been dead. I have no doubt that I would have committed suicide by the time I was 25, I felt so alone and ashamed and afraid of my...
