Marriage Advice

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 […]

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

Here are 3 ways to shift relationship conflict when you think it’s impossible to have peace and love in your relationship…

Relationship struggles can go on for years without resolution. Here’s Joan’s story of how she learned how to let go of the struggle for more peace & love…

  When people tell us they have relationship trouble and ask us what’s one thing they can do to get closer, we give them a suggestion that goes something like this… If you want to get closer, one way is to focus on getting on

Many marriages get stale after awhile, often from lack of attention and the intention to keep connecting deeper on a regular basis. Lately, we’ve both been thinking about ways that we could experience the gifts of connecting even more than we do already. With that

What we know for sure is that disagreement is normal and natural within a relationship or marriage. It can be uncomfortable, frustrating and NOT what you want to do–but there it is and you have to deal with it. HOW you deal with disagreements and

Today, we’re talking about Valentine’s day and you’ve got an important choice to make about it… Are you going to make it “no big deal” or are you going to use it to your FULL ADVANTAGE to restart the spark or even to deepen the

It doesn’t happen in every relationship or marriage, But… There’s an “itch” that attacks many relationships at various points and sometimes (either consciously or consciously) one or both partners feel the urge to “look around” at other people while still in a committed relationship. This

Paula was a coaching client of ours and over the years before coming to us, she was frustrated and wanted her marriage to change… But her husband didn’t. When she’d try to talk with him about what, in her opinion, would make their relationship better, he’d say