by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 19, 2024
I spend my professional life trying to understand people. It is literally what I do. Someone sits across from me and I am working to see the world through their eyes, to trace the thread from where they are back to where it started. I am good at it, and I genuinely...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 17, 2024
I see it in my office almost every day. Two people sitting across from each other, and between them a wall that neither one fully understands. He’s either shut down or pushing too hard. She’s closed off, defensive, unreachable. And they’re both...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 12, 2024
I have failed at this. More times than I want to count. So when I say this, I’m not talking down from some high ground I’ve always occupied. I’m talking from the mess I’ve made when I missed it. Women often lead with the surface layer. What...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 8, 2024
You don’t like what your man is doing, or not doing. You’re frustrated, maybe you’ve been frustrated for a while now, and it keeps coming out sideways. Criticism. Blame. Contempt. And you wonder why nothing changes. I’ll tell you why: what...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Mar 18, 2024
Whether you know it or not, you have rituals. You do certain things at certain times in certain ways, and you do them consistently enough that they’ve become automatic. The question is not whether you have rituals. The question is whether you chose them with...
