RELATIONSHIP RISK SOLUTIONS

This is the theme this week for Beginning Conversations – the domestic abuse intervention groups of Relationship Risk Solutions ....

While I have a battering intervention curriculum at Relationship Risk Solutions for the men in Beginning Conversations, there are life...

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...

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...

I’m about to present a new idea to my domestic abuse intervention group – a different and probably unconventional reason to honor and...

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”...

In addition to the usual curriculum in my domestic abuse intervention group, and to accommodate different learning styles, I bring in...

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

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...

Forty years ago, my sons were young, bright, modest, and uncharacteristically wise beyond their years. When anyone asked what they wanted...

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,...

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. (BCAM) Wanting more information, I went online, and the first result in a Bing search for BCAM...

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...

At Relationship Risk Solutions, men who have been referred by court to battering intervention meet in Beginning Conversations groups and...

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...

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,...

We hear a lot about toxic masculinity these days. On TV, in magazines and blogs, in counseling and in conversation. “But what about...

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...

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...

Although women do use violence against intimate partners, the ways in which they use violence, and the context in which this use occurs,...