You know when occasionally you find yourself complaining about how, had you REALLY known that your boy/girlfriend-type-thing or husband was, X, (oh for the sake of argument, stingy with his/her freaking feelings) and very much not Y (oh for the sake of a longerargument, warm and fuzzy like Grey’s Anatomy’s Dr. McDreamy), you might never have dated […]
Usually I coach you to make yourself scared, because we know how cool it is to go up against fear and win, but today I am going a little new-agey on you and tell you to make yourself sacred. In other words, you are the source of your own experiences. Too often we erroneously think our […]
Next week is Valentine’s Day and the start of my latest 4-week teleseminar series called Why Love Fades & How to Keep It Vibrant, so love is on my mind!This is the time of year we love to test (and watch fail) our partners even more than usual. Have you noticed? Thought I’d help you avoid […]
Awhile back, my husband and I spent two days coaching a couple once so in love, now on the brink of divorce. We had already been working with them individually, with my husband coaching the husband and I coaching the wife. We were managing to help each one cope with the stress of a dissolving […]
Usually my husband’s jokes get an eye roll or a snicker from me, but today I tried something new. I told him he is so funny. (He is.) I smiled big. I looked right at him and beamed. I was the sun and he was a big, purring cat, basking in my light. In the […]
It’s a common misperception in relationships that things should be equal. Not so. Did that get your attention? Keep reading. Do we agree that most fights in relationships have to do with unmet expectations about who is responsible for what? (This includes keeping love, romance, trust and sex alive and thriving!) For example, you might […]
A few years ago I had a near-divorce experience. Ten years and two kids into our marriage, my husband, Will, and I had fallen into a disconnected rut. Everything was fine, not great; we accepted each other’s good and bad qualities and existed pretty peacefully together. And then we tried to buy and renovate our […]
The “Done Dating?” group tele-course is starting next week and it got me really thinking about the mindset of falling in love and staying in love.So I asked Will, my husband, about why we “work.” His answer:“Lest my wife give you the impression that all is easy magic in our house, let me assure you […]
