Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Many a wife has married hoping—sometimes consciously, sometimes not—that somehow she and her husband could encourage each other to be better people. Yet many a wife has found herself not encouraging but managing that same man: chidingly correcting his speech, pointing out what he ought to do, how he… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism Consultant, writes: The smartphone we’re so attached to; the books that have lasted many centuries; and our relation to a person close to us: what do all these have to do with the nature of self, with art, and with the fight going on in each of us every day? The answer… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: Aesthetic Realism explains, as nothing else does: 1) what the purpose of love and marriage is, and 2) what, in both women and men, interferes and makes for so much unnecessary pain. The Aesthetic Realism consultation trio There Are Wives—Barbara Allen, Anne Fielding, and Meryl… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: As you see these words—you are reading. Find out tremendous new things about why reading matters, and what it has to do with art, and the world itself, in “Reading, Our Lives, & the Opposites,” the magnificent current issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known.  The commentary by… Read more

Carol Driscoll, Aesthetic Realism consultant to women, writes: In the late ’60s I was a member of the Boston Women’s Health Collective, and this sentence by Ellen Reiss was true of me: “There’s…a tendency to say that men and women are after fundamentally different things.” I thought I knew what men were after—they were insensitive,… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: “You’re not listening to me!” many a spouse has protested. A husband can feel that his wife is not interested in hearing what he has to say. And a wife, likewise, can feel that what she says falls on deaf ears. But couples haven’t understood why they don’t listen… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Complaints—we’ve all had them, including Shakespeare! But is there such a thing as a complaint that does our lives and the world good, and is there a very different kind, which is harmful? How can we tell the difference? —Also: what is the chief way we’re… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: Aesthetic Realism Consultant Arnold Perey and Associates Matthew D’Amico and Jaime Torres will speak on one of the biggest and most confusing emotions we have: anger. As they’ll tell, Aesthetic Realism understands this subject—as nothing else ever has—and what it explains is desperately needed! People… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: “He’s changed on me!” many a wife has felt about her husband: “He forgets this. He doesn’t do that. He doesn’t even seem to think about me much anymore….” And the list of disappointments goes on. Granted, men have imperfections, as do women! But frequently in a wife’s eyes,… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Complaining has always been popular. But what is the criterion for complaint? Why is some complaint valuable and another kind very hurtful? And what can we learn about the subject from a poet who Eli Siegel said was “one of the great complainers of all time”? You can find out in… Read more