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RELATIONSHIP RISK SOLUTIONS
ASSESSING AND AMELIORATING RISKS IN INTIMATE PARTNER RELATIONSHIPS AND FAMILIES


It’s 2025: Why Are We Still Debating Basic Respect?
It’s March 2025, and it’s Women’s History Month – at least in some places. But I am confused. I don’t usually comment publicly on...
Juanita Jones
Mar 20


May Our Lives Be Full of Thanks and Giving
This is the theme this week for Beginning Conversations – the domestic abuse intervention groups of Relationship Risk Solutions ....
Ben Grimes
Nov 25, 2024


All I Really Need to Know I Learned ... From A Truck Driver. People Lessons Learned on 18 Wheels.
While I have a battering intervention curriculum at Relationship Risk Solutions for the men in Beginning Conversations, there are life...
Juanita Jones
Aug 28, 2024


How Much Do Words Matter? Batterer, Bully, Abuser?
Perhaps, we in the field of domestic violence have failed victims and survivors by how we talk about what happens when a woman lives with...
Juanita Jones
Jul 17, 2024


Why Do So Many Men Abuse Women?
Years ago, a few of us in our community were speaking to various groups to raise money for what was to become a center to treat victims...
Juanita Jones
Jun 18, 2024


Mother’s Day - And How We Know We're Civilized
I’m about to present a new idea to my domestic abuse intervention group – a different and probably unconventional reason to honor and...
Juanita Jones
May 4, 2024


"I was just joking ..."
April Fool’s Day has come and gone. But I wonder how many people used the traditional day to abuse a partner. Just like “brutal honesty”...
Juanita Jones
Apr 2, 2024


What does the Ides of March have to do with Domestic Violence Intervention?
In addition to the usual curriculum in my domestic abuse intervention group, and to accommodate different learning styles, I bring in...
Juanita Jones
Mar 8, 2024


Groundhog Day 2024
It’s Groundhog Day… Groundhog day… groundhog day,,, groun.….. Do you think they wonder why we keep doing the same thing over, and over,...
Juanita Jones
Jan 30, 2024


Why men shouldn’t resolve to help around the house in the new year
It’s that time of year for us to go through the motions of the perennial New Year’s resolutions. This year will be different, I tell my...
Juanita Jones
Jan 3, 2024


♫ All I want for ♫ Christmas is… ♫
Forty years ago, my sons were young, bright, modest, and uncharacteristically wise beyond their years. When anyone asked what they wanted...
Juanita Jones
Dec 22, 2023


Why Thanksgiving is Important in a Battering Intervention Program
I’ve just thanked the men for not showing up with their scary faces for Halloween, and now it’s November. Besides our curriculum topics,...
Juanita Jones
Nov 4, 2023


Save the Tatas! From Breast Cancer and Domestic Violence
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. (BCAM) Wanting more information, I went online, and the first result in a Bing search for BCAM...
Juanita Jones
Oct 2, 2023


Labor Day – What’s Gender got to do with It?
Labor Day -- our traditional end of vacation season -- got me thinking about getting back to work and what sort of work we're all getting...
Juanita Jones
Sep 11, 2023


It Takes Two to Tango
At Relationship Risk Solutions, men who have been referred by court to battering intervention meet in Beginning Conversations groups and...
Juanita Jones
Aug 4, 2023


Compromise Sucks
Compromise sucks. Many people will tell you, you’ve got to compromise; it’s a win-win. However, if we’re honest, it doesn’t feel like a...
Juanita Jones
Jul 4, 2023


Re-thinking Father’s Day
As a cultural value, we all love our mothers and our fathers. A celebration of mothers has existed in some way since ancient Greek times,...
Juanita Jones
Jul 4, 2023


But What About Toxic Femininity?
We hear a lot about toxic masculinity these days. On TV, in magazines and blogs, in counseling and in conversation. “But what about...
Juanita Jones
Jul 4, 2023


The Myth About Sharing Power
It’s finally spring! The weather is warm. The flowers are blooming. I’m in a park watching children on the playgrounds. I don’t have to...
Juanita Jones
Jul 4, 2023


It’s not anger management, it’s memory management
Have you ever tried to flea-dip a cat in a bucket of water? That’s how many men come into battering intervention programs. They come in...
Juanita Jones
Jul 4, 2023
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