Several months after Yael and I put marriage on the horizon, the relationship began to feel like an absolute nightmare, even dangerous at times. She push all my buttons. I pushed back in fear and anger and then she would retreat into her turtle shell. When I got angry, I would also do something we…
Dear Loving Out Loud Community! I want to take the opportunity to tell you about my relationship journey with my spouse Yael. We recently celebrated five years of marriage. We met on match.com eight years ago. Yes … an online dating success story, indeed. When we met, Yael lived in Boston, MA., and interestingly, I…
One of the biggest FALLACIES out there is that, in order to create a lasting love relationship, all you have to do is find someone who’s “successful” and who has less “baggage” than you do. Forget it … because it’s just not true! I used to think that way myself. I also spent a lot…
Imagine standing on the edge of the sidewalk on a busy road. Instead of waiting until it’s clear, you purposely step out as a speeding car approaches. The car hits you, but you survive. Now imagine doing this repeatedly and surviving. Yes, you would survive, but you would have external scars as well as untold…
Many people are still enamored with the idea that being successful in relationships is as easy as putting two healthy people together and hoping that will be enough to make the relationship work. As savvy, sophisticated, relational thinkers, however, we know this just isn’t true. We know that place in a relationship where the same…
I appreciate you and I am looking forward to an amazing year together-filled with life, love and possibilities. Ready to start 2015 with a new perspective on relationships? Click here: http://lovingoutloud2014.com/relationshipreinvention/ After years of heartbreak, infidelity, stubbornness, fear, confusion and following the wrong guidance … I needed to change how I was looking at relationships…
The great essayist & poet Adrienne Rich wrote that, “When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.” From an early age, a lot of women were taught that the truth wasn’t the truth. And as a result, we learned to distance ourselves from emotions like anger, fear,…
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Is your love life up and down? Are you asking for what you want and need? As I transform the places where I felt too unworthy to ask for what I needed and didn’t feel I even had the right to ask, now I open my heart and ask. Asking for what I need is…