Frank Pittman
Frank Pittman
Frank Smith Pittman, III, M.D.was an American psychiatrist and author. He wrote a regular column, "Ask Dr. Frank", which used to appear in Psychology Today...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
CountryUnited States of America
marriage infidelity causes
Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.
anniversary marriage wedding
The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.
marriage love-is people
Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.
marriage laughing together
The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.
marriage important elements
Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.
marriage submarines safe
Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.
relationship hurt play
Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another.
marriage people done
For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there to know what we have done for those we love.
marriage married make-you-happy
Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.
family past two
Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it out for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves.
jobs parent age
Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.
marriage father men
. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.
sweat people products
Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.
girl children dirty
Early on, girls begin to menstruate, which is dramatic but not obvious to their playmates. They grow taller and rounder, but underneath their makeup they are still recognizably themselves. For boys it is far more disorienting. Puberty comes later, sometimes much later, and its delay is humiliating. While the tall round girls are getting themselves up like grown women, the prepubertal boys, with their featureless, hairless bodies, are just dirty little kids who could pass for the children of the hypermature girls.