We all make what we might consider communication mistakes as we go through life and interact with others. It’s just inevitable because we’re all so different and look at the world so differently. As we’ve learned from our own relationships, as well as from our …
One of the tricks to making sure you aren’t pushing love away without meaning to is… To make sure you aren’t holding onto thoughts about your partner, yourself and others that would cause you to pull back or hesitate to show up as full of …
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One of our favorite songs is a song by the band U2 called “One.” In the song there’s a line that we just love that says this… “We’re all one but were not the same.” When it comes to our relationships, this is sometimes magnified …
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What do you do when your relationship differences collide and you’re stuck at an impasse? If there’s one thing that’s been the secret for the two of us keeping our love alive and growing over the years, it’s this… We’ve learned (and are continuing to …
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Jared and Holly were at a crossroads in their 5 year marriage. Holly had gotten a call from her daughter’s high school guidance counselor that the 16-year-old had been caught with drugs and had been suspended. It was a crisis for their family but also …
A crisis in your life can come in all shapes and sizes but what it does do is wake you up to a reality that you may not have wanted to face. It’s like in the film “Point Break” when Patrick Swayze’s character Bodhi says, …
It’s been a year since Connie’s husband Todd had ended an emotional affair with a co-worker but she hadn’t been able to let go of the pain and betrayal. She knew she needed to get her suspicions in check every time he went to work …
One of the tricks to getting past the same arguments is to understand that if you’re repeating the same old arguments, you’re simply stuck in a loop of thinking and you’re not willing to consider another possibility for this situation. Sometimes the thing that you’re …
Why don’t we get along with our spouse, parents, kids or other important people in our lives as much as we’d like? The reality in the lives of far too many people is that their relationships with those closest to them are too strained, difficult, …
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One of the tricks to healing the divide in any relationship lies in your willingness to see the other person as “different” instead of the enemy and someone (or some thing) to fight against. The desire to be right, to make someone else wrong and …
