Relationship Advice

Several years ago, my sister, two cousins and I took the train from Richmond, Virginia to New York City for our yearly “cousin adventure.” We had purchased tickets ahead of time for the Carole King show, “Beautiful,” a 911 walking tour, our hotel and of […]

Here’s a quick story about something that happened this week that has nothing to do with relationships but has EVERYTHING to do with solving relationship and other problems. Our new book, BIG FAT LOVE: The Book of Possibilities comes out in 9 days and I

Janet had had it with her mother! Theirs had always been a troubled relationship and since her mom’s health had deteriorated, it had gotten worse. Being an only child, Janet had now become her mother’s chauffeur to all doctor appointments, as well as taking her

If you’re into changing your partner but are hitting a brick wall, here are the A, B, C’s of how change happens from Susie and Otto Collins…

The other day, a friend of ours asked us about all the worst case relationship scenarios they were hearing. They wondered if people were still getting married because divorce rates are so high–(One source cites divorce is 50% for first marriages, 67% for second, and

As I sit on the couch with my husband Otto cheering the Cincinnati Reds professional baseball team onto a narrow victory, I can see my father erupting into a huge belly laugh wherever he is in the ethers. Me watching and liking baseball was way

Whether you consider yourself to be a “rule breaker” or not, sometimes you’ve just got to break relationship rules. The fact is that we all live by a set of rules. We may not call them that or even be aware of what these rules

Letting go of disappointment can be one of the hardest challenges we’re faced with in life. It can be a disappointment over a relationship that didn’t work out, a job you didn’t get (or are stuck in), a diagnosis that looks grim and on and

Do you have to work on a relationship to make it a good one and keep it that way? Here’s a great question someone asked awhile ago on this topic that we thought was worth chewing on a bit… “You hear many people say that

The other day, I was in a book discussion group, talking about the well-researched book The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee when I got really triggered. I became very uncomfortable when every comment I seemed to make in the discussion was “wrong” according to