I recently read an article which stated that suicide has now surpassed car accidents as the number one cause of injury-related death in the United States...That blew my mind. It's scary to think that so many people are finding it necessary to deal with their pain in an irreversible way. More >>

Dr. Laura received many responses to her question: Do you think getting cold feet before your wedding is just a natural part of the process, or is it a bad omen for the marriage? Here are just a few... More >>

I was talking to my brother the other day. He was telling me about a conversation he had with a friend. His friend was contemplating if he wanted to stay married. More >>

My parents split when I was 11 years old. My mom often spewed venomous, hateful comments about my dad, who not only never said anything negative about her, but insisted we treat her with respect. More >>

My son's friends called him over to spend the night as they had new video games. When he got there, no one was playing video games... When he came home gray-colored that night, I asked him why he hadn't stayed over. He explained he didn't want to and went to bed. More >>

Over the many, many years I've worked as a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice and on the air, I've done a lot of research on divorce, especially when it involves kids. The scientific literature differs very much from popular literature in what the happiness quotient is after a divorce. Scientific literature suggests that a good three quarters of people who divorce regret it. More >>

Several years after our first and only child was born, I became so angry with my husband, I decided I would replace him. I rekindled an old friendship and before long I was sneaking around behind my husband's back and seeing this 'friend'. More >>

I was divorced in 1984 after 18 years of marriage, not being aware of you when I married the first time in 1964. It was terrible. More >>

The problem with exposing kids to sex has far more to do with trivialization and objectification than simply encouraging kids to do it. It has to do with what kids are taught about human connection... More >>

Three years ago my husband and I were so out-of-sync with one another that our marriage was officially starting to crumble; we were systematically taking steps for a divorce. More >>