Improve Communication

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 […]

In terms of priority, where do you feel like you rank with your partner? Are you and your relationship their 1st priority? Or are you and your relationship… 2nd… 3rd…. or  an even lower priority? If you and your relationship are a top priority to

One of the most upsetting feelings you could ever experience when you’re in a relationship or marriage (especially when you’ve been together a long time) is… When you feel like you can’t say what you think or how you feel and be understood. You can

Saying what’s on your mind seems like a good idea but is it? Here Susie and Otto tell Tori’s story and give 3 valuable communication tips…

It’s a fact that communication builds or destroys trust in every moment. One of the ways to build trust instead of destroying it is this… Be clear in your communication after you’ve gotten clear inside you. *Be as clear as you can when you’re talking

In relationships of all kinds, the conflict of independence-dependence can be one of the stickiest issues that people have to deal with. Since we’re all so different, each of us has a greater or lesser desire for freedom and independence and that’s where the “rub”

When most people say there’s broken communication, there’s what they think is going on and there’s what’s really going on under the surface. Usually one person is not doing or saying what the other person thinks they should and one or both are angry, distant,

It’s so easy to get defensive when someone, especially a loved one, thinks or acts differently from what you think is “right.” It just seems natural or “healthy” to defend a belief and make the other person “see the light”… Or in other words, make

Sally was so angry she could spit nails–or at least that’s what she told us during our coaching session with her. She owned a hair salon and it was in danger of closing once more because it hadn’t fully recovered from the pandemic and forced

In his mind, Randy couldn’t win. It seemed to him that in his marriage of 15 years, his wife had always had the attitude of “it’s my way or the highway.” He felt like he had to “go along” with her to keep what little