Dr. Bing has been a marriage therapist in the Ames and Des Moines area for over 23 years. He began the Thriving Couples Blog to help couples to not just to survive their marriage but to thriving in their marriage. For over 10 years, Bing has written hundreds of articles about relationships, commitment, communcation, building trust, dating, sex, and what it takes to have a wonderful and fullfilling marriage.
Dr. Bing doesn’t hold back though. He is a big defender of taking responsibility for your own life and to not use the victim card as a way to justify treating your spouse unkindly. Having a thriving marriage is going to be hard work, but it is meaningful hard work and is worth it in the long run. So, take some time to read through the many articles throughout this site.
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Dr. Bing’s Comments on Quotes (010): A Test … Who You Are In Secret
“Be nice to the janitor.” Random online comment of a reviewer of Jordan Peterson’s "12 Rules for Life" The last week I’ve been reading Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life and also read a few of the online comments of reviewers. A lady reviewer shared her mother’s...
Dr. Bing’s Comments on Quotes (009): Out of the Blue
“Things are way more complicated than you are smart.” Jordan B. Peterson (Podcast dated June 25, 2018 from Portland, Oregon) Sometimes life is humming along and you are fine and you can handle whatever comes your way and then, BOOM!, something happens out of the...
Dr. Bing’s Comments on Quotes (008): If You Need a Roadmap, It Doesn’t Mean You are Stupid
“Change and loss travel together.” Lori Gottlieb, (2019), Maybe You Should Talk to Someone People usually don’t think about going to counseling until they reach a point where something seems out of control or unmanageable. For a lot of us, it is the loss of...
Dr. Bing’s Comments on Quotes (006): Learn Where You Live
“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.” King Solomon, 1100 BC in Proverbs 25:2 ESV Many clients over the years have commented to me that my blog on Living as Roommates was really creepy, like I had been observing...
Dr. Bing’s Comments on Quotes (005): It’s the Little Things
“Take care of your business and it’ll take care of you.” Benjamin Franklin By Dr. Bing Wall, Ames Counseling Center and Des Moines Counseling Center This quote from Benjamin Franklin often comes to my mind while I’m paying the company bills or taking care of...
Dr. Bing’s Comments on Quotes (004): Generosity vs Keeping Score
“Not that she and Curdie ever thought of how much they worked for each other: that would have spoiled everything.” George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblins, 1872 The “she” in this story is Curdie’s mother. Curdie is the boy miner who rescues the Princess from...
Dr. Bing’s Comments on Quotes (003): In Praise of Male-Female Differences
“Where there is a withdrawn or silent man, there is usually a critical woman.” Steven Stosny and Patricia Love, How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It First off: this quote is a bit unfair. There are certainly men who simply aren’t chatty, no matter...
Dr. Bing’s Comments on Quotes (002): Dedicated to Rev. Jim Froehlig. Mentor, Friend, Example, Colleague, Pastor
By Dr. Bing Wall, LMFT “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” Proverbs 12:15b There are two chains in the link of life: learning from the previous generation and giving to the next. This is one of the great joys of family: learning from your parents...
Dr. Bing’s Comments on Quotes (001): The Backstory
By Dr. Bing Wall “He who has never seen darkness has never seen the sun.” K. Chesterton, 1917 There is a common belief that the proof of God’s non-existence is the presence of evil in the world. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve heard people say, “I can’t possibly...
Can Marriage Therapists Present a Point of View?
This is another blog in a series from old things I’m finding cleaning out files…past due, no doubt (click Here for the others). The quote below is left over from my dissertation back in my Ph.D. studies at Iowa State in the 1990’s! YIKES! In any case . . .