{"id":978,"date":"2011-08-15T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stayhappilymarried.com\/?p=978"},"modified":"2011-08-15T00:00:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T05:00:52","slug":"how-to-avoid-speed-bumps-in-the-relationship-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/2011\/08\/15\/how-to-avoid-speed-bumps-in-the-relationship-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Avoid Speed Bumps in the Relationship Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s face facts, no relationship is perfect! In the \u201crelationship road trip\u201d there are potholes, speed bumps and road kill that all couples have to try steer clear of. More often than not, when we have stopped paying attention, we run into something we didn\u2019t mean to hit.\u00a0 The best way to protect yourself, and your spouse, is to spot the troubled areas on the road ahead, before you hit them head on.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Karen Sherman joins us to discuss how to set expectations and enjoy your relationship to the fullest.\u00a0 Karen is a licensed psychologist in New York and has been in private practice for over 20 years. Karen focuses on relationship and marriage counseling and how to help people achieve their greatest potential. Karen is author of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mindfulness-Art-Choice-Transform-Your\/dp\/1932690514\">Mindfulness and The Art of Choice: Transform Your Life<\/a>\u201d and the co-author of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/MARRIAGE-MAGIC-Find-Keep-Make\/dp\/1418402184\">Marriage Magic! Find It, Keep It, and Make It Last<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0 Karen is a featured author on such online forums as Yahoo Personals, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdage.com\">ThirdAge.com<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitchedmag.com\">HitchedMag.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Karen&#8217;s books are available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Karen-Sherman\/e\/B001JP1FUO\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\">Amazon.com<\/a>. To find out more about Karen you can visit her websites, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChoiceRelationships.com\">www.ChoiceRelationships.com<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.DrKarenSherman.com\">www.DrKarenSherman.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s face facts, no relationship is perfect! In the \u201crelationship road trip\u201d there are potholes, speed bumps and road kill that all couples have to try steer clear of. More often than not, when we have stopped paying attention, we run into something we didn\u2019t mean to hit.\u00a0 The best way to protect yourself, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,21,24,25,26,47,48,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-appreciation","category-communication","category-conflict","category-control","category-counseling","category-intimacy","category-marriage","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}