Passion and Marriage: 4 Mindsets That Can Destroy Passion

If I asked you who your best friend is, many of you would point to your spouse or partner. Close friends share a strong emotional bond, enjoy spending time with each other and often have a lot in common. However, there are important elements of a romantic relationship that set it apart from a [...]

How to Deepen Intimacy Through the Power of Empathic Listening

“I hate having to compete with the TV or computer for my husband’s attention. He used to be such a wonderful listener. I feel like I’m not important enough to him anymore.” ~Jennifer “It’s really frustrating. I’ll tell my girlfriend something and by the next day, she’s forgotten what I said. I’ve given up [...]

Sex, Lies and Secrets: is Secrecy Destroying Your Marriage?

After the story broke that New York governor Eliot Spitzer was having sex with prostitutes, relationship experts popped up on every news channel, dispensing theories about Mr. Spitzer’s behavior. Opinions about why a married man (and one with a great deal to lose) would behave this way ranged from him having unmet needs to [...]

Marriage Alert: Why Falling Out of Like is Dangerous to Your Marriage

  A recent marketing book I read touted the importance of getting potential clients to “know you, like you and trust you.” It seems that marketing and romance have more in common than meets the eye: In the world of marketing you’re trying to convince someone your product or service is worthwhile; in [...]

Marriage Help: Coping with a Spouse’s Illness

It’s natural to enter a long-term relationship with expectations. And one expectation most of us have is that our spouse or partner will remain relatively healthy. Although wedding vows ask us to consider the possibility of sickness, we don’t automatically assume our loved ones will suffer a serious illness. “I felt blindsided by the [...]

Marriage Slumps, Relationship Ruts and Other Painful Realities About Love

  Warning: the contents of this article may upset you. In fact, I strongly recommend that you close this page. If you’re like most people, you have a child-like naïveté about romance. I don’t want to spoil that. Sure, you were able to handle the truth about Santa Claus and the tooth fairy (oops, [...]

The Ultimate Holiday Gift: Nurture your marriage this holiday season

If it’s the season to be jolly… …then why am I seeing so many stressed, beleaguered couples walking around? Is it more apt to say, ‘Tis the season to feel tense, frustrated and constantly on the go?  Whether you’re feeling totally overwhelmed or slightly frustrated, it’s easy to lose perspective about what’s most important [...]

Relationship First Aid: How to Heal a Fear of Intimacy

Intimacy is a lot like trying to get warm on a cold winter night. You wrap yourself up in your favorite blankets and settle in for sleep, but at some point overnight you may feel too warm and constrained by the blankets. So you disentangle yourself and push the blankets away. But after a [...]

Relationship help: 5 essentials to keep your relationship fresh

Anyone who is married or in a long-term committed relationship comes to realize that at some point there is a danger of falling into a lifeless routine.  The vast number of marriage advice and relationship help books is a clear indication that couples are eagerly searching for ways to head off relationship problems and [...]

Marriage Alert! Can Your Relationship Survive the Financial Crisis?

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~Victor Frankl You don’t need me to tell you about the dire state of the American economy and the reverberations being felt around the world. While you’re probably well aware of how this is directly impacting your bank [...]

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