Love Advice

Valentine’s Day is sacred to me. Valentine’s Day 1999 is the day the incredible Susie Collins and I decided to get married. We didn’t get married on Valentine’s Day. That didn’t come until four months later, on June 20th. What has followed since then has […]

Since the new year is just a few days away, it’s pretty normal to think about how you want your life and relationships to be different in the coming year–and maybe make resolutions around them. You might want… *A different job *Better communication with your

I was just about to turn 26 years old when one of my attempts at self-love (and to be loving to my wife at the time) turned into the biggest disaster of my life. What happened was, one day our next door neighbor who was

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,

As I was bouncing around to what constitutes dancing for me these days at a Coral Reefer Band concert to Jimmy Buffett’s “Fins,” adding arm movements at the appropriate times, a woman in front of our lawn “seats” turned around, looked in my eyes and

Sitting at a table by the restaurant window, my friend asked my opinion about what she thought the message was in our new book, Big Fat Love: The Book of Possibilities. She got the idea that one of the book’s messages was just about being

One thing we’ve discovered about love, relationships, marriage and how to stay in love is… Great relationships DO NOT happen by accident… In fact, it’s true about not only your relationships, but everything in life… A great “anything” doesn’t happen by accident… Take couples who

Loving yourself more of the time can seem “selfish” or even impossible at times. One of the big questions we get from the people who read our blog articles, newsletters and interact with us on Facebook is how to love yourself more… Loving yourself is

While Susie was working out at the gym one day a few years ago, she watched the 2008 musical “Mama Mia” movie for the fourth time. She loves the music, she loves the story and apparently so do other people because the exercise room was

Awhile ago, a man wrote to us and asked for some tips about how to successfully start a new relationship. As we thought about his question, we remembered how we began our relationship and how dramatically different it was from others we’d been in. We