Do you know what keeps conflict and the power struggle in place? Yep! Criticism. Criticism kills love. Criticism can kill a marriage. There is no such thing as constructive criticism in intimate relationships. When we criticize others we hurt them and we hurt ourselves. When we criticize our partner we freeze them in the very…
Falling in love is like a spiritual experience. Most couples start with total positive feelings of being in love, and then somewhere down the road, they painfully split up–sometimes after they’ve dragged each other over the hot coals. What does this reality tell us? In the honeymoon stage of the relationship we coast along in…
I had a some-what-mutual break-up with my girlfriend. For five years we were together, a rocky relationship to say the least. We were in one of those relationships where you break up and get back together over and over again. Most of the time I would be the one to leave because the arguments were…
My husband walked out on me and our children six months ago. He sad he loved me but he was not in love with me, no passion, no spark, and no click. He said he was unhappy and felt I was too controlling. He also said he felt like he had a chain around his…
My husband and I have been married for 20 years. For years I chose to work nights so I could stay at home and raise our two girls. Somehow through it all my husband and I have grown so far apart… I want counseling to help us better communicate. He says “no counseling”… I feel…
Hello Friend, Thirty-years ago my life took a turn that became irrefutably my best chance at living and creating a life that had meaning and purpose. The skill that I learned didn’t turn into a best-selling novel, a movie, or make me rich and famous. But it did change my life forever and it’s the…
My boyfriend and I have been living together for 4 years and it is truly a great relationship. I would like the commitment of marriage, but he does not. This difference of opinion has raised the question of what really is a committed relationship? I believe that he and I both have different expectations of…
I am currently seeing CE and NR. CE lives near me and NR lives 400 mines way. I met NR online last summer, and we chatted. Just before I started dating CE, I had made a comment to NR that if she lived close to me that I’d date her. After CE and I had…
