Got a personal issue or trouble in your relationship? An easy way to ruin your relationship is to keep all of your trouble to yourself. Let’s talk about 2 kinds of trouble and tackle each separately: 1.) Your personal troubles – unrelated to the relationship If you are reluctant to ever “burden” others with your trouble […]
Busy Couples
Keep Fighting Over The Same Thing?
Ever find yourself lost in the same circular arguments with your significant other? You just keep fighting over the same thing. Something so trivial, like who did or didn’t take the garbage out, can seem to start the most nuclear of arguments. Or you give your partner the most neutral look and it’s interpreted as […]
The Miracle Of You
In the last few weeks and months I’ve heard people citing the odds that you were born. I guess it’s because Gary Vaynerchuk started talking about it that everyone is? And here I am doing the same. You don’t need to be a genius to know that the odds of you being here exactly as […]
Your Inner Critic: A Subtle Intimacy Killer
Your inner critic could be ruining your relationship and you may not even be aware of it. Got intimacy issues? Connection and communication problems? Can’t seem to understand each other? Find yourself walking on eggshells, uncertain how to talk about things together that you feel couples should be able to handle? Is there a growing distance […]
A 10-Minute Conversation To Revive Your Relationship
Need a relationship revival? Today I’m going to share a quick and easy conversation to have together that will do just that: Revive Your Relationship This conversation to have with each other is not something I learned about in graduate school or in my post-doctoral training to become a couples therapist. It’s actually something […]
When Santa’s Not The Only One With Secrets
Let’s talk Secrets in your relationship. There are big secrets and there are little secrets. Obvious secrets and not so obvious ones. Good secrets – like that gift you’re hiding for your honey – and not so good secrets. I’m all for the good ones, but let’s talk about the others. Sometimes, the big ones […]