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About Stuart Fensterheim

Stuart Fensterheim, LCSW helps couples to overcome the disconnection in their relationships. As an author, blogger and podcaster, Stuart has helped couples around the world to experience a unique relationship in which they can feel special and important, confident in knowing they are loved deeply and that their presence matters. The Couples Expert Podcast consists of weekly provocative conversations offering the perspectives and insight of experts from a variety of relationship related fields. Stuart also offers daily relationship video tips on The Couples Expert YouTube channel and by subscription in Stuart's Daily Notes. Stuart is happily married and a devoted father of 2 daughters. His office practice serves the greater Phoenix, Arizona area including the cities of Scottsdale, Chandler, Tempe, and Mesa.
13 01, 2020

Best Friends

2020-01-13T21:18:49+00:00

Do you treat your partner as your best friend? Maybe you see them as more than a friend, and that’s how it should be, but in the day to day interactions between you do you give your partner the same consideration, respect and admiration that you hold for your best friends?  It’s easy to become [...]

Best Friends2020-01-13T21:18:49+00:00
8 01, 2020

Retirement – These Are the Good Times

2020-01-08T17:12:27+00:00

The Retirement years are the good times. Welcome to my ongoing series on life transitions. In past installments I’ve covered issues related to newlyweds in Part I, raising a family in Part II and the empty nest in Part III. In Part IV I’ll be discussing the retirement years. Your kids are grown and gone, [...]

Retirement – These Are the Good Times2020-01-08T17:12:27+00:00
26 12, 2019

Childless Couples

2019-12-26T19:08:57+00:00

There’s still a social stigma around childless couples. I hear from couples who are pained by assumptions made that they’re selfish or narcissistic, or that they are lacking something in life by choosing to remain childless. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. Couples that make a conscious decision to choose to remain childless can have [...]

Childless Couples2019-12-26T19:08:57+00:00
23 12, 2019

Pay It Forward in Your Relationship

2019-12-23T19:41:11+00:00

Do you ever pay it forward in your relationship? To do something for someone knowing you can never be repaid for it, that’s the intention behind true kindness and gestures of compassion. It always brings a smile and a warming of the heart whenever you see or hear of someone paying it forward for a [...]

Pay It Forward in Your Relationship2019-12-23T19:41:11+00:00
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