Over the past few days I’ve been in serious vacation mode and haven’t been seeing coaching clients and haven’t been working on any book or writing projects. Because of this, Susie and I have spent even more time together than normal and it’s been totally […]
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In relationships, when should you trust your gut instincts? When you know you have jealousy and trust issues–or other issues that separate the two of you… When do you believe what your “gut” tells you and when do you not pay attention to it? For
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One of the biggest barriers to more love and possibilities in our lives is how much, how often and how deeply we “numb out” when life and our relationships overwhelm us and get to be too much. Most people don’t realize it but we ALL
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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
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One of the ways to resolving control dramas in relationships is to see “control” as the illusion it really is. Control is completely made up in the minds of the people involved. Here’s the thing… Control dramas in relationships come in all shapes and sizes
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How do you deal with disappointment that comes in all shapes and sizes for all of us? We think something should happen or shouldn’t have happened and we hold onto that expectation, ruining relationships and making us physically sick. Here’s what Marie told us… She
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Last week, we celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary and it seemed appropriate to talk about what we’ve learned about making love last. When we got together, we didn’t want to re-create our previous marriages to other people that ended in divorce so we knew we
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One of the best ways to get a fresh start in anything… Especially falling in love again is to realize that this moment is a new moment. And in order to fall in love again, you do need a fresh start! If that’s not happening,
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Many of us suffer from the addiction called “Black and White Thinking” but don’t see it or don’t realize all the trouble it causes. Black and white thinking is “either-or” thinking. It’s thinking there is only one option and not being open to hearing another…
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Sam did it again! He did what he swore to himself he wouldn’t do. He found himself looking at his phone checking sports scores instead of focusing on his wife Jackie when she was talking about her day. They’d talked about him being more present
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