Heart to Heart Communication, L.C.
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Heart to Heart Communication, L.C.

Welcome to Heart to Heart Communication, L.C.
We help marriages thrive, not just survive.

Marriage Counseling in Des Moines, Ames, and Central Iowa.
We are the relationship experts.

Who is Heart to Heart Communication, L.C.?

Dr. Bing Wall

Bing began Heart to Heart Communication, L.C. in 1995 with the goal of applying a strength and mentoring approach to helping people in their relationships through education and therapy. His expertise is in couples and relationship issues. He is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of Iowa, and a Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. More about Bing Wall.

Carol Caskey

Prior to her work at Heart to Heart Communication, L.C., Carol had an extensive background in working with children, adolescents and their parents. She earned her Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Kansas and is a Licensed Master Social Worker in the State of Iowa. More about Carol Caskey.

What makes us different?

Marital therapy is difficult. We don’t just sit there and let people complain about each other. Most couples do enough of that already. Our goal is to be pro-active and to give couples specific information to help them make the choices and changes they need to restore hope and love in their marriage. More

Dr Bing Wall with his grandson Alyas born April 1, 2008Dr. Bing Wall with his grandson Alyas born April 1, 2008

Contact Us

Phone

Toll free: 1-888-233-4334 Ames: 515-233-8473 Des Moines: 515-274-4242

Email

General: inquiry@thrivingcouples.com Bing Wall: bingwall@thrivingcouples.com Carol Caskey: carol@thrivingcouples.com

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Global Rich List

If you are discouraged about your income and family finances, check out this web site. You enter your yearly family income and it will tell you in a moment how you compare with the rest of the world. Maybe things aren't so bad after all!

Is Marriage Good for Your Health? - NYTimes.com

What the research shows about the relationship between relationships and physical well-being. Researchers have known for 150 years that married people have an advantage over single, widowed and divorced people. This article goes on to differentiate between the well-being of successful marriages vs. the well-being of those in conflictual marriages. People in stressful marriages do worse than single people in their overall health, but single people, who never married (and I'm guess, never cohabited), also do better than people who divorce! In other words, if you are in a conflictual marriage, divorce does not necessarily solve your problems! Let's work on improving the marriage! Check out this article and then give us a call.

American Thinker: The Differences Between Marriage and Cohabitation

Many people cohabit without marriage in hopes of improving their prospects of having a happy marriage later on when they actually marry. But cohabitation lowers chances of marital success. Most cohabiting relationships breakup before 18 months, the incidents of unfaithfulness in cohabiting relationship is considerably higher than in marital relationships and cohabiting couples who later marry divorce at higher rates than couples who did not cohabit before marriage. See this article for a summary of the research.

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Recent Articles

Thoughts on Affairs (A Response to John Edwards’ Confession of Having an Affair)

Written September 9th, 2008 by Bing Wall

So now John Edwards has admitted he’s had an affair and once again infidelity is in the news.  Nary a week goes by where the headlines don’t blast us with the latest philanderings.  If you believe in the veracity of the family this type of news is depressing.  Bad news makes the NEWS.    No one’s plastering headlines that you’ve been faithful to your spouse yet again today.  So what do we make of another politician’s wanderings?

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Common Struggles Couples Have Who Meet Online

Written July 31st, 2008 by Bing Wall

As a marriage counselor, I’ve seen many couples in recent years who met on-line. These couples have several commonalities.

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Rantings on Selfishness in Marriage

Written July 27th, 2008 by Bing Wall

My son Brandon, lives in Omaha with his wife Philly and 3 day old son, Alyas (congratulations to Mary Sue and I…our first grandchild! EEEHAA!). We visited them right after Alyas was born. What fun! Brandon is a seminary student and planning to go on to do doctoral work in philosophy. He often talks with friends his age who are thinking of getting married and he told me he’s been able to summarize what it takes to be married in one sentence. Since in marriage counseling I work with people in this area for a living, I was interested in how he’d decided to succinctly put one of the world’s great mysteries. He tells them: “Don’t get married if you like being selfish.”

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