When Anger is Met with Love…
It’s Otto writing today and I want to share a story about one of the most difficult days of my life in the hope that it will be helpful to you. Enjoy… It was about 9:30 pm on a Saturday night and my son was …
An Introvert, Opinionated but Wants to Communicate Better…
Rita was tired of holding so much back but she didn’t know how to communicate better with her husband and tell him what was wrong. When she did express her opinion, they often fought with him getting angry and her retreating back into her shell. …
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If You or Your Partner is Emotionally Checking Out of the Relationship…
It can feel very lonely and upsetting when you slowly realize that either you or your partner is emotionally checking out of the relationship. You can make up all kinds of stories as to why it’s happening but the truth is that you probably don’t …
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Emotional Connection: How to Build it and How to Keep It
A deeper emotional connection can be built with those you love. Here are 3 ways to begin…
Rebuilding Love After Broken Trust? Start Here…
One path to rebuilding love after broken trust is to find out if there’s still enough love or enough desire to want to rebuild the relationship in a new way. Most of the time when trust has been broken, one or both people want to …
Communication That Resolves Resentments
It’s a fact, your communication either creates closeness, connection and expands the feelings of love, creativity and possibilities… Or it creates walls, barriers and defenses that cause distance, separation and resentments. Wouldn’t it be a whole lot better if the other people in your life …
3 Tips for Handling Thorny Relationship Issues that Build Trust…
In the span of just a few hours, Susie heard the stories of three people who had been dealing with thorny relationship issues with their partners and didn’t know what to do. One man said he didn’t know how to talk with his wife about …
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People-Pleasing: What’s So Wrong With It?
People-pleasing is often so unconscious that we don’t know we’re damaging our relationships. Here’s why it’s important to recognize and stop it…
When You’re Giving Too Much in Love and Life…
“I’m absolutely sick of it,” Jenny said. “I give and I give and I give and I never get anything in return! Why do people always seem to take advantage of me just because I’m a nice person and I really care about other people?” …
4 Ways to Deal with Resentment
As Carly sat at the kitchen table staring at her husband Frank with resentment, she wondered how things would ever be right in their marriage again. It had been years since she felt important to Frank because he was either focused on his phone watching …