Intensive Marriage Therapy
Love and relationships can be both exhilarating and difficult to navigate. It’s amazing how these emotions can make us feel alive, but they can also bring us to our lowest points. We embark on this journey without any formal training, armed only with what we’ve observed from others and our own experiences. But let’s face it, those sources aren’t always the best teachers. This is why every couple could benefit from couples counseling.
Continue ReadingGuest Post by Maria Eniss
After posting Surviving Residency: The 10 Things I Learned While My Husband was a General Surgery Resident, I received an email from a friend of mine and fellow surgeon’s wife. Maria Ennis is the wife of a Critical Care/Trauma Surgeon and is the mother of five.
She was already a couple of years into residency when we met and our husbands began working together. A couple of things always impressed me about Maria. While her husband was working crazy hours, she was able to continue her work as a NICU nurse on a very part-time basis. She worked when she wanted to, yet had the flexibility to manage her family at the same time. Continue Reading
You may not naturally connect with the members of your spouse’s family. Still, it is essential to remember this: the number one priority with in-laws is to form a relationship with them that does not hurt your marriage.
There are several proactive things you can do create just that kind of relationship:
Question: We are second year medical students. First year medical school was rough–and we have lots of layers to our situation. One of them is that we have two kids under 4-years old and we live 2000 miles away from family.
My main question is how to manage a relationship (romantic/connected/sexual and being vulnerable) with my souse while being a “single mother 6 days a week, tough skinned, independent, and positive? I feel as though I’m living in two worlds.Continue Reading
All bleeding stops…eventually. So the saying goes.
Medical residency is tough–it’s physically, emotionally and intellectually exhausting. The demands of medical training consume our time and our energy. It’s the nature of the beast. Add in a marriage and maybe a few kids (we have four) and finding balance between medical training and family relationships can become a daunting challenge. Continue Reading
During my internship, I realized that residency is insatiable—there is never and will never be enough time to satisfy its demands. There are always patients to see, labs to check, notes to write, pages to return, articles to read, conferences to attend, presentations to prepare and research to work on. Like a gas, those demands quickly dispense into whatever space it is given. Continue Reading
