It’s been said that every marital relationship is only 31 days from some sort of an affair. With all of the outside influences that attempt to attack marriages, this stat is possibly very true. Whether it’s an old fling that contacts a party after 25 years or someone new in … Read More
Shift Your Thinking for Successful Dating, Part 1
Dr. Henry Cloud, author of How to Get a Date Worth Keeping, outlines the idea of changing the way you view dating. He suggests that dating is as much about learning your needs and wants as it is about finding the “right person”. This is part one of a series, … Read More
Fear of relationships paralyzing you?
Fear is almost always connected to a bad experience; one you experienced yourself or one you heard about from someone else. This fear can be powerful, it can keep us safe from danger, but it can also keep us from needed change in relationships and life. The world would be … Read More
Praise Loudly
Let the loudest thing that your partner hears from you be praise. It’s easy to let the things that we love about our partners go unsaid or assumed. We have a tendency to voice concerns or criticism and forget to sing praise. So make a conscious effort, every time you … Read More
The Eggplant
Do you ever find yourself with that sinking feeling when you know you are going to have to address a particular topic for the 17th time with your partner? How do you bring it up? I often suggest to my clients to give it a code name…and the more playful … Read More
Relationship Joy
Relationships often become mundane. After the sparkles of dating wear off, the mundane of life can settle in. Rather than longing for the magic of the early stages of the relationship, look for ways to find joy in the mundane. There is always something to celebrate if you are on … Read More
Interacting or Connecting?
We find ourselves constantly involved in people’s lives. Whether we’re working with them or whether they’re our family, we are continuously interacting with others. What makes the difference of merely interacting or truly connecting with someone? It begins with interest in them. So often, we encounter individuals in our associations … Read More
The Great Atlanta, iPhone Social Experiment!
Sometimes finding the first words to say when you see someone you might connect with is difficult. Perhaps a friend has to remind you to smile, uncross your arms, or even loosen your neck-tie a little or nudge you to utter the word “hello”; these things come naturally to some, … Read More
What is Love?
Before I attempt to answer this age old question, I’ll start by first telling you what love is not: love is not the butterflies in our stomachs, the goosebumps when skin touches skin, the long day dreams and feelings of “walking on air.” It is not the racing heart, the … Read More
