Defining Love By Our Parents Stories

Defining Love By Our Parents Stories Jasbina Ahluwalia discusses with  Abby Rodman, author of  Should You Marry Him? A No-Nonsense, Therapist-Tested Guide to Not Screwing Up the Biggest Decision of Your Life how people define marriage based on what their parents show them: This is one of the last quotes that I’m going to share from your book. You have a chapter entitled, Theirs and Ours: Making Your Marriage Your Own. South Asian

Be Your Own Person and Spice it Up!

Be Your Own Person and Spice it Up! Jasbina Ahluwalia discusses with  Abby Rodman, author of  Should You Marry Him? A No-Nonsense, Therapist-Tested Guide to Not Screwing Up the Biggest Decision of Your Life the importance of living a life with passion: I hear from men very often, “I want someone who is passionate about something in their lives. I don’t want to be their whole world.” You can flip into living vicariously

Why Being Self-Fulfilled Can’t Wait

Why Being Self-Fulfilled Can't Wait Jasbina Ahluwalia discusses with Abby Rodman, author of  Should You Marry Him? A No-Nonsense, Therapist-Tested Guide to Not Screwing Up the Biggest Decision of Your Life the importance of self fulfillment: That’s such an opportunity that we have in terms of demonstrating our love to our partners to be the people who really are healing that. That’s amazing. Like you said, there is a flip to that. That’s

Childhood Wounds in Love Relationships

Childhood Wounds in Love Relationships Jasbina Ahluwalia discusses with Abby Rodman, author of Should You Marry Him? A No-Nonsense, Therapist-Tested Guide to Not Screwing Up the Biggest Decision of Your Life the role of our childhood in romantic relationships: Your book states, “Many of us “hire on” a potential spouses to activate or reactivate our childhood wounds. Everything we know about relationships, we learned in childhood and that knowledge becomes like a pair

Changing Your Life or Lifestyle for Love

Changing Your Life or Lifestyle for Love Jasbina Ahluwalia discusses with Abby Rodman, author of Should You Marry Him? A No-Nonsense, Therapist-Tested Guide to Not Screwing Up the Biggest Decision of Your Life someone changing their lifestyle vs. changing their life for love: You addressed it by discussing ten make or break pre-marriage issues that popped up from your experience. You mentioned that they come up in every troubled marriage or relationship that

Intuition & Marrying the Right Person

Intuition & Marrying the Right Person Jasbina Ahluwalia discusses with Abby Rodman, author of Should You Marry Him? A No-Nonsense, Therapist-Tested Guide to Not Screwing Up the Biggest Decision of Your Life the following: It was a great book. I’m very excited about sharing it with our listeners. What led you to write Should You Marry Him in the first place? _____   Abby Rodman That’s a good question. I think it started

Meet The Patels – Interview With the Movie Cast – Ravi Patel, Vasant Patel & Champa Patel

Meet The Patels - Interview With the Movie Cast - Ravi Patel, Vasant Patel & Champa Patel “Insights from the Cast of Meet The Patels” Jasbina Ahluwalia interviews Ravi Patel, Vasant Patel & Champa Patel   Ravi V. Patel - Director/Writer/Editor/Actor​ Ravi’s directorial debut is the real-life romantic comedy Meet the Patels. Executive Produced by Academy Award Winner Geralyn Dreyfous. The film features Ravi’s family and his comedic take on a sequence of

Dr. Helen Fisher Interview – Insights from Chief Scientific Advisor, Match.com

Dr. Helen Fisher Interview - Insights from Chief Scientific Advisor, Match.com “Insights from Chief  Scientific Advisor, Match.com” Jasbina Ahluwalia interviews Dr. Helen Fisher   Helen Fisher, PhD Biological Anthropologist, is a Senior Research Fellow, The Kinsey Institute, member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University and Chief Scientific Advisor to the Internet dating site Match.com. She has conducted extensive research and written five books on the

Flexibility Important in Relationships

Flexibility Important in Relationships Jasbina Ahluwalia asks Dr. Pat Love, author of The Truth About Love: If both partners are motivated to continue the relationship then there are plenty of measures that they can take. There is a lot of timeless wisdom in your book, The Truth About Love. You discuss tips for the neo-traditional model of marriage, which was prevalent at that time and is even more so today. It takes even more forms than when your book first

Therapy Helps Relationships

Therapy Helps Relationships Jasbina Ahluwalia asks Dr. Pat Love, author of The Truth About Love: That’s so helpful, walking through what strikes people when that happens. It’s really difficult to recover from that. I’m wondering if you’ve seen cases where couples have been able to. Do you believe that trust and faith can be restored? What can be done at that point? Maybe they were in the accidental category. _____   Dr. Pat Love Lots of good books were