Ever been so angry and worried about a fearful future that every time you thought about it… It just made you more upset and created a worse situation? This was happening to Patti and she knew it wasn’t healthy for her, her husband or their …
How Anger, Blame and Being Worried about a Fearful Future Keeps Love Away Read More »
Cathy was frustrated with her husband, Paul, often snapping at him over little things… And she was just tired of trying to work on their relationship–by herself. She still loved him after all these years but the intimacy and connection just didn’t seem to be …
TRYING to Work on Your Relationship? Do This Instead… Read More »
How do you weather the storms in your relationship? We all have them in one way or another but… What do you do when you’re in the middle of them or they’re so frequent you wonder if your relationship will survive? A few days ago …
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Every single person on the face of the earth has at one time or another thought the worst about their partner. So many people want to stop thinking the worst in their relationship and yet they continue to do it time and time again. By …
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This week, we’re celebrating our 20th 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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There are codependent habits that wreck relationships but here’s the truth you may not know… Every relationship between two people who live together, love together and are together as partners on the path of life is codependent. But there’s a healthy codependency and there’s such …
A long relationship that’s filled with lasting love sounds like a great idea, doesn’t it? Everybody wants it. Right? (Especially when you’re talking about the kind of lasting love portrayed in romantic comedy movies and beach novels 😉 ) But when you actually try to …
The painful part of lasting love (and why it doesn’t have to be your reality) Read More »
One of the tricks to knowing whether you’re ready for a relationship reboot or not is to look at the connection between the reality of what’s going on in your relationship and what you really, really want. Most people make the big mistake of trying …
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Have you ever gotten so caught up in your thinking, imagining the worst about your partner or a situation, that you spin off in all sorts of directions that pull you away from solving relationship problems? If so, guess what? You’re normal. You see, it’s …
“Welcome to the neighborhood!” we said as we met our new neighbors last night and immediately tried to change them because they have two big dogs and no fence… And we thought they should have a fence because we didn’t want the dogs running loose! …
