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 | Nov 15, 2017 | Couples, Therapy
Conventional wisdom among therapists is that couples tend to wait to do couples’ counseling until it’s too late to save the relationship. That may or may not be true, but it misses the point. Whether the relationship can or should be saved, dissolved, or morphed...
