Journal
Essays and reflections on relationships, community, and the small practices that bring us closer to ourselves and to each other.
After nine years of marriage and a young child, a husband announces he wants to separate and refuses couples therapy. On facing a decision that belongs to one person, grieving the relationship, and moving through the transition.
Five years into the marriage, a husband wants to move back to his home country in the Middle East, but his wife has no desire to go. How can they navigate a decision where neither will be fully satisfied?
You can have a relationship with your mother even if she never fully acknowledges how she hurt you. But what kind of relationship can you have, and what will it require from you?
A Bangladeshi American man has been hiding his Colombian girlfriend from his parents for years. Now they demand he leave her. How can he choose between the family he loves and the future he wants?
After years together, a couple faces a painful difference: one partner wants children, while the other does not. How can they choose between love and two fundamentally different futures?
When a husband's estrangement from his brother ripples through the whole family, how can a partner speak honestly without taking over a relationship that is not hers to fix?
Note: Letters are fictionalized or adapted from common relationship concerns and may be edited for clarity, length, and privacy. They do not represent current or former clients. Submitting a letter does not establish a therapist-client relationship.