Can Women and Men be "Just Friends"?

 A good-spiritied debate with a colleague, Adam Sheck, Ph.D., and relationship coach Marni Battista:

• Nice guys finish last?

In my practice, I get to hear both sides of a common struggle of the sexes: women struggle to find a good, quality guy and some of the guys who fit that description can't seem to get the women. What's this all about?

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• Navigating the 'Quarterlife Crisis'

"My father never talked about buying a sports car in his middle years, but I sure feel like I could use one - or at least a six month trek across Europe", said James, a 27-year-old client who worked for a federal agency and couldn't stand sitting in front of a computer for nine hours each day at his third post-college job. He also frequently expressed disdain at the fact that he was living in a group house with four other twentysomethings, that he could barely pay all his bills (especially the student loan), that his mother kept asking him about his singlehood, and that he had no real vision for his future. James often spoke of feeling in crisis.

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• INTERVIEW: Nathan Gehlert, M.S., LPC

You could say that Nathan Gehlert's own "quarterlife crisis" led him down the path to career change. As a result, he's now helping others in their 20s and 30s discern what they want their own lives to look like in 10 years. Gehlert joined PC&CC last year while working on his Ph.D. in Pastoral Counseling at Loyola College. He explains that his decision to leave a political science career several years ago really was part of a larger discernment process taking place in his 20s. "I know it's probably a cliché, but I got into political science because I was really interested in helping people on a macro level. I enjoyed my time doing that and learned a lot, but at the end of the day, I felt frustrated that I wasn't getting to help people in the ways that I really wanted to," he says.

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