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By: Christine Hammond, LMHC Has your sex life changed after years of marriage?   Are y ou struggling with mismatched sex drives?   Sometimes the solution is right in front of you. Take a moment go over to lamp and unplug the cord from the electrical outlet.   Does the light go off?   Of course it does, now plug it back in.   The energy created between the connection of the outlet and the plug causes the light to go back on.   The outlet by itself cannot cause the light to go on any more than the plug by itself.   Both parts are needed to generate the electrical current. The plug fills an opening in the outlet just as the outlet receives the plug.   Sex works in the same manner: a husband fills his wife just as the wife receives her husband.   The connection between the two generates powerful energy and excitement.   But this energy and excitement is not just reserved for sex, it can be generated in everyday life as well. ...

By Chris Hammond, MS, IMH A Bully Narcissist may have you intimidated.   A Girly Narcissist may have you feeling bi-polar.    A Poker Face Narcissist may have you questioning reality.   A Debater Narcissist may have you arguing with yourself.   But a Psychotic Narcissist will have you downright fearful with little justification for how or why you are feeling that way.   The urge to run in the opposite direction will be just as strong as the curiosity to explain where the intense feelings are coming from.   It is almost as though you are having a moment of heightened sensitivity where all of your antennas are up and you are on full red alert just looking for the slightest indication that you are in immediate danger but without success.   Any yet you are in danger. For this reason, the Psychotic Narcissist becomes an interesting study in how a Narcissistic Personality Disorder can become so intense that they proudly commit heinous act...

By Chris Hammond, MS, IMH You have finally realized that you are married to a narcissist.   Everyone else around you already knew this and even warned you about him but for some reason you thought it would be different.   Maybe you believed that he would change for you and maybe he did before you got married but as soon as you walked down the aisle everything changed.   Suddenly this incredible dreamy person who swept you off your feet, met and even exceeded your every expectation, became this other alternate ego.   At first he convinced you that you were the problem and then you finally realized that he is. Now what do you do?   Well there are several obvious destructive options: have an affair, run to another county, develop an addiction, become even more depressed, gossip about him to a few hundred of your girlfriends, or end the marriage in divorce (which seems easy but is often very ugly).   Or instead you could learn to understand what yo...

By Chris Hammond, MS, IMH No, I am not a man-hater and this article is not meant to be taken seriously.   Rather it is written tongue-in-cheek to demonstrate the obvious and not so obvious ways a wife can show disrespect to her husband.   Sometimes the best way of understanding something is to begin with what it isn’t.   While this can be a roundabout way of addressing a subject, it can also establish some necessary boundaries from which to form a better understanding.   With that in mind, here are a few suggestions for demonstrating disrespect the next time you are alone or out with your husband.   You can do this over dinner, in front of his friends, better yet your friends, and best yet in front of family.   Make sure you temper your comments with sarcasm, mockery or cynicism to add an extra dose of disrespect. ·          His work – Try making a joke about what he does for a living, where he works...