Joshua Coleman
Clinical Psychologist and Author, San Francisco, California
Joshua Coleman is a psychologist in private practice and senior fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families. His books include The Marriage Makeover (2004), The Lazy Husband (2005), When Parents Hurt (2007) and Rules of Estrangement (2021). He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Written by Joshua Coleman
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Gender and identity
A manly divorce
Straight men rarely write about the end of their marriages. Our enduring ideas about gender explain this silence
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Love and friendship
The right person
Contemporary wisdom says that happiness is the measure of a marriage. But is that a harmful way of judging relationships?
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Mood and emotion
Radical acceptance
The painful feelings you avoid grow twisted in the dark. By facing your sorrows and struggles you can take back your life
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Family life
Estranged
When feeling good about ourselves matters more than filial duty, cutting off our parents comes to seem like a valid choice
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