The cross :More and more couples are making pilgrimages together. They are 18% on the roads to Compostela, according to a recent survey. How do you explain this need? Sonia Chick : I believe that couples no longer find the time to talk to each other about important things. They are caught up in the […]
Tag: family relationships
Letellier or Cohen, the winding story of a name change
Family stories are rarely simple. And the name change law, which comes into force this Friday 1er July, could offer a new illustration. While this text aims to simplify the lives of those who carry their surname like a burden – victims of domestic violence, separated parents who today no longer bear the name of […]
Place of life, marriage, children… How decisions are made in the couple
Who says couple decision immediately thinks in large format, with the most engaging questions: living together? To marry ? Have a child? Change region? Essential choices but which only embrace a small part of the vast field of arbitrations on which a couple’s life is built. On a day-to-day basis, you have to decide on […]
“Separation, a decision rarely taken together”
The cross : How do couples make the decision to separate? Musa Nabati: In some couples, two adults talk to each other to carry out a work of elaboration of this choice, where thought and reason have their place. For others, it’s a one-sided, impulsive decision made by an inner child. The little girl or […]
teenage lies
Children love to disguise the world or, as the adults say, to lie. It’s a way of progressively differentiating dream from reality and appropriating the latter. It also happens to teenagers to lie, but for very different reasons. They have acquired the difference between dream and reality, as well as a certain moral sense. They […]
“Neither too close nor too far”, the challenges of the father-daughter relationship
Rose, 10, already knows what she is going to give her father for his birthday in a few weeks. “I’m going to make him a pocket for his papers with a beautiful design”, she said in a timid voice. The little girl finds her father ” kindly “. It’s even ” The World’s Best Dad […]
Father-daughter relationship, they testify: “He was both a model and a counter-model”
“My father was a model and a counter-model” Beatrice, 66 years old “My father is 95 years old. He is part of a generation where men had to work and women stayed at home. When he was 20, he told me that a father’s job was to walk his daughter down the aisle. And me, […]
Father-child relationship: “We went from a strict father to an invested father”
The cross : How has the role of the father evolved? John Le Camus: Early childhood specialists began to take an interest in its place in child development in the 1950s and 1960s. At the time, the reference was the paterfamilias antique. The role of the father was considered “delayed” compared to that of the […]
The adventure of the family SME
“A couple with children is like an SME. » I can still hear this revered colleague, 25 years my senior, at the coffee machine. I had just had my second child. With his airs of Gandalf come back from everything, he made me smile gently. “Don’t laugh, it’s very serious”, he clutched, unfazed, sipping his […]
Lies, lack of support, infidelity… Forgive yourself within the couple
To forgive or not to her husband? carolina has been in question for a few weeks. “I don’t know if forgiveness is really 100% possible when the spouse’s attitude affects your integrity or the values of the couple, recognizes this 47-year-old Parisian.It’s a bit like when a sheet of paper is crumpled up. No matter […]