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Seven Ways to Ensure Your Relationship Will Last
We’ve both grown up on the job, learning from our relationships. To make our new love everything we wanted it to be, we had to take the next step. Learning how to take care of “the baby,” as we call...
View ArticleThree Must-Haves of Every Great Relationship
Are you living the good life? Would you like to? These are the penetrating questions that visionary psychologist Carl Rogers asked throughout his career as a passionate proponent of what he termed a...
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The Relationship Repeater: How to Stop Seeking Out the Wrong Partners
Everyone has had a relationship that doesn’t work out, but not everyone repeatedly starts and ends relationships that so closely resemble the last one that failed. What separates people who have good...
View ArticleSeven Steps You Must Take Once a Relationship Goes Bad
Once a relationship just isn’t working anymore, we can feel it in our gut. Most of us override that feeling with rationalizing and justifying why we should stay because we have already invested a...
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Six Ways to Bring Out the Best in Your Partner
Congratulations! You have found someone with whom you want to share your time, your feelings, your love; your life. You have been given a precious gift. A loving relationship is something to treasure,...
View ArticleAfter the Breakup: The Most Important Thing to Do Before ‘Getting Back Out...
As a breakup therapist, and author of the blog and book, “Getting Past Your Breakup: How To Turn A Devastating Loss Into The Best Thing That Ever Happened To You,” I receive many questions about what...
View ArticleThree Surprisingly Common Marriage Mistakes that Lead to Divorce
You’ve heard of cheating and fighting leading to divorce, but what about selflessness and lack of hugs? Behaviors such as cheating and fighting are the manifestation of deeper behavior patterns that...
View ArticleWhy Most Women Choose Sleep Over Sex
Nearly 80 percent of women would rather get a good night’s sleep than have sex, the Better Sleep Council has reported. Why is this? One reason may be that women do not see intimacy as valuable as...
View ArticleEight Tips for Couples Combining Finances: Should We or Shouldn’t We?
When we’re in love, we typically want to do and share everything with our partner. But is it a smart decision to make? In my work with couples over the years, I’ve seen how financial conflict can...
View ArticleFive Ways to Turn Relationship Problems into Relationship Solutions
If you’re like most of us, hearing the following four words from your partner is akin to getting punched in the stomach: “We need to talk.” That’s because we’re conditioned to expect conversations to...
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Eight Valuable Love Lessons For Us All
It would be nice if life’s most important lessons came wrapped in a neat package and delivered to your front door. Unfortunately, many of the most essential lessons about life and love come the hard...
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Five Things to Consider Before Deciding Your New Love is ‘The One’
Love and connection are the sustenance of life. Love is the super delicious treat in life. It’s wonderful. The challenge is that the few first few months of any relationship are consumed with a lusty...
View ArticleThe Biggest Reasons Men Stay in Bad Relationships
It is the uncomfortable question that your close friends and family usually will have no problem answering: “Why does he stay with her when it’s obvious they aren’t happy?” That’s because they know you...
View Article‘Help! My Partner’s Frugal…But I’m Not!’
He is Mr. Saver, she is Miss Spender. She is a tightwad, he is a spendthrift. He hoards his dollars like the next Great Depression will hit any day, and she spends her dollars like there’s no tomorrow....
View ArticleHow Soon is Too Soon to Get Engaged?
When actress Kaley Cuoco announced that she was engaged to tennis star Ryan Sweeting after three months of dating, she joined a list of other celebs who were quick to get engaged. Some that spring to...
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Why You Shouldn’t Brood About the One Who Got Away
It always hurts when someone breaks up with us, even if it happens after a single date. The more we perceived the person as being ‘right’ for us, the more we pictured ourselves with them, the more we...
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How to Divorce-Proof Your Relationship
One of the core problems of failed relationships lies in the tendency to look to one’s partner, rather than themselves, to heal their shortcomings and create happiness. When we relinquish ownership of...
View ArticleThe Relationship Repair Kit
Something’s wrong. You can feel it in your gut. Or your heart. Your relationship is off track. Broken. And in need of repair. You’re tempted to bury your head in the sand, doing little and hoping...
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The Breath of Coupling
Breathing; it’s the thing we do every second of every day; day in and day out. Most often our breath happens without giving any thought to it, unless we are “out of it” or need to “catch it” or if some...
View Article6 Things You Can Do to Better All of Your Relationships
We have one job in this life and that is to be authentic in who we are. It is easy to get pulled away from our commitment to ourselves in the world of relationships as we experience the demands of...
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