When not officiating non-denominational weddings here in Los Angeles, among other things I teach at UCLA Extension. Last month I finished up my eleven-week course, The Dynamics Of Interpersonal Communication. All of my communication work – including my pre-marital communication coaching – is based in the belief that we all do what we do and say what we say for a reason. No one “just is.” Flowing from that is my conviction that in every relationship, over …
A Celebration of Choice in Los Angeles!
I recently had a final meeting with a couple who are getting married next month. During a leisurely Starbucks conversation, the groom, Max (names changed, said this to me: “I had to reach rock bottom in past relationships before I could find Kate I had self-imprisoned myself in a gulag of abuse. I knew I wanted better and so I set out in search of Kate.” The old cliché that marriage is a “ball and chain” made …