What would happen if you put a marital therapist, a professor of philosophy, a mathematician and two comedians on a sofa and got them talking about love? That's the simple idea in this podcast on the philosophy of love. I explain my ideas about 'What is Love?' and we discuss whether love is the … [Read more...]
Personal Development
My Husband Says I’m Controlling Him
A Reader Writes… I love him and I know for a fact that he loves me too. But I think my husband has anger and inferiority problems but he doesn't want to admit and get help. He gets angry about anything, no matter how small it is. He yells and doesn't talk respectfully. He doesn't approve of any … [Read more...]
I Hate Myself After My Husband’s Affair
A Reader Writes… Seven years ago, when I was 8 months pregnant, I discovered my husband was cheating on me. I was suspicious because he was so uninterested in me, only barely interested in the pregnancy, and I put a tracking program on our computer. It took screen-shots of when he sent emails or … [Read more...]
I’m Having a Mid-life Crisis and I Don’t Love You Any More
A Reader Writes… After 8 years my girlfriend ended our relationship on a Friday morning with the words “I can’t do it any more”. She had often been distant in recent months but every time I confronted her about it she said she wasn’t happy about her lack of a social life and the fact that I hardly … [Read more...]
My Husband Has Had a Sexual Affair
A Reader Writes… A week before Christmas, I found out my husband of 25 years had been having a 3 month affair with a work colleague. I discovered his infidelity after hearing a message on my home answer phone - a conversation he and his lover were having that was inadvertently picked up by his … [Read more...]
My Husband Won’t Say He Loves Me After His Affair
A Reader Writes… I've been reading your book HCIETYA and I think my husband and I are stuck somewhere between Hope and Attempted Normality. He had a brief affair for three weeks (?) almost 10 months ago with someone he worked with - he says it was a mid-life crisis but was both angry and scared … [Read more...]
