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 …
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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! …
One of the tricks to getting unstuck from a stale relationship is to first recognize where a stale relationship comes from. It’s not the other person. It’s the fact that you’re stuck in a loop of thinking that is seeing the relationship and your connection …
Mutual friends introduced Paula and Rod and soon after, they started dating, became an exclusive couple, and moved into Rod’s condo together. Rod owned a plumbing business and needed an office manager–Paula was between jobs so he hired her, thinking that would solve his problem …
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17 years ago Mark and Sally were everything to each other. They had just met a few months before at an end-of-the-summer wedding of two mutual friends. Since neither of them knew knew very many people there, they struck up a conversation about the “embarrassing …
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