“We go from zero to a hundred in no time – there’s no in-between!” A woman in our last workshop described how she and her husband often end up in loud arguments, seemingly out of nowhere. She honestly shared how they start cussing and name calling, saying things like,...
I’m reading a great book called Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria by Dr. Beverly Tatum. In the chapter I was reading this morning, she talks about the difficulties of having conversations about racism, and it struck me how much it applied to...
When I was in my twenties, I thought getting to be with this woman Elena would make me happy. She was confident, cool, and independent and I was sure she was my ticket to happiness. And she was … for a while. A much shorter while than I would have liked. But then...
Avoiding conflicts in relationship makes for big shocks She had the same old fight she always had with her husband, but this time, he threw his hands up and said he was done. She was shocked when he took off his ring and moved out of the bedroom. He rarely comes home...
Do you ever find it difficult to trust in a relationship? To trust your partner? We talk to so many couples who have problems with broken trust in a relationship (for which reason we designed a 90-minute mini-workshop about rebuilding trust). Whenever trust is broken...
When we coach couples, a frequent concern is freedom in relationship. Or rather, the lack of freedom and the fear of losing freedom inside a marriage or long-term relationship. This also shows up for singles wanting a committed...
What is a Love Strategy? It's the unique way in which you arrive at the experience of feeling loved. If the "What" is feeling loved, then your Love Strategy is the "How". Everyone has their own strategy for feeling loved. Love Strategy is an idea from Neuro-Linguistic...
In your relationship, are you typically the one who is pulling for more time together? Or would you be quite happy spending less time together? When it comes to spending more or less time together in your relationship, there are essentially three different states you...
Last week we published a video post entitled “How to Make Your Husband Happy” that included a few tips from us on what works for men. A couple of the things we recommended were to “Tell him he is a good man” and “Give him points for effort”. This week we published...
