As I sit on the couch with my husband Otto cheering the Cincinnati Reds professional baseball team onto a narrow victory, I can see my father erupting into a huge belly laugh wherever he is in the ethers. Me watching and liking baseball was way […]
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If there’s one piece of relationship advice that’s absolutely true, it’s that life and relationships are all about change–and you have to deal with it. And if you fight against it or deny it, you not only make your life miserable but your relationships suffer
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We don’t know about you but we’ve noticed there are a lot of global issues that have instilled so much fear that are pitting one person against another. We’ve also seen individual personal issues that create deep divisions where it seems like there’s no solution.
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Whether you consider yourself to be a “rule breaker” or not, sometimes you’ve just got to break relationship rules. The fact is that we all live by a set of rules. We may not call them that or even be aware of what these rules
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Letting go of disappointment can be one of the hardest challenges we’re faced with in life. It can be a disappointment over a relationship that didn’t work out, a job you didn’t get (or are stuck in), a diagnosis that looks grim and on and
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Too busy for love? Want more time with your spouse, partner or lover? In this video that we recorded in 2015, we give you 3 ways to find the time for love and your connection again. We also answer the questions… what do you do
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Most of us intellectually know that forgiveness is a good thing–that it’s good to not hold onto resentment, pain and hurt from the past. But when it comes to actually “doing” forgiveness and letting go of resentments, we often choose to hold onto the hurt.
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Do you have to work on a relationship to make it a good one and keep it that way? Here’s a great question someone asked awhile ago on this topic that we thought was worth chewing on a bit… “You hear many people say that
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If you read Otto’s story called “Recovered from Rage,” you saw how his anger used to get lit very easily when he thought he was being controlled or wouldn’t get his needs met. He also explained what he learned that changed him from occasionally explosively
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Everyone agrees… Communicating in ways that bring you and your spouse or partner closer together is a good thing. Communicating in ways that make the important people in your life want to spend more time with you is always something you should want… AND… Communicating
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