by Neil Wilkie | Sep 24, 2026 | News
When I was a boy, leaving the house followed the same script every time. My father would announce, “We need to go,” and head for the car. He would sit with the engine running, drumming his fingers on the steering wheel, while my mother finished whatever...
by Neil Wilkie | Sep 23, 2026 | News
Why time apart rarely brings you back together, and what to do instead There’s a moment many couples reach when one partner says the words: “I think we need some time apart.” Often it comes after a long stretch where one of you has been saying, in ways big and small,...
by Neil Wilkie | Sep 5, 2026 | News
There is a sentence I hear more often than any other in a first session, and it makes something in me bristle every time. “I’ve had years of therapy.” It is usually said with a mixture of pride and exhaustion, the way you might describe a long...
by Neil Wilkie | Sep 1, 2026 | News
There is a particular sentence that emerges in relationships, usually late in the evening and rarely by choice. Some version of: do you have any idea how much I do around here? It almost never lands well. But it is worth listening to, because that sentence is the...
by Neil Wilkie | Aug 8, 2026 | News
Most of us go on holiday expecting to feel better. And then, somewhere around day four, we don’t. The mood drops. Something old surfaces. A conversation goes wrong over nothing. We fall ill the moment we stop. And we conclude, quietly and wrongly, that...
by Neil Wilkie | Jul 24, 2026 | News
The Four Moves of Repair: A Step-by-Step Guide So something happened. It was small, or it was large. The temperature dropped. Someone went quiet or someone raised their voice. Now what? Repair is not complicated, but it is exact. There are four moves, and they happen...
