PHIL: When you’re making plans or looking for solutions, how do you come to agreement? You need to find something that works for you and works for the other person, too, or maybe even people, because this is something that …
The Secret to Agreement is Creating Something Neither of You Imagined Read more »
MAUDE: Phil and I just got back from a little overnight celebration of our first meeting. We took some time to just be with each other, share our love of nature, and concentrate on each other. Mainly, we were just …
Hi, Phil and Maude here. We sit down each week and talk about how we are, or how our week has been and how we navigated it, and out of that comes a post. We look for a particular angle …
What Does it Feel Like to Experience Peace in Your Relationships? Read more »
PHIL: What we are trying to do in these posts is to describe how we are in as much detail as possible so that you, dear readers, can share our experience of living in peace. We have said before that …
Why Being in Continuous Connection is Vital for Peaceful Relationships Read more »
Hi everyone. Here is a little extra for you on Valentine’s Day. To all those who allow me to love them, to all those who love me To all those who have allowed me to love them, to all those …
MAUDE: I had a conversation with my friend Dale the other day that I found very inspiring. She told me of an event she experienced while walking near her home. She encountered a group of women from the block standing …
The One Simple Switch That Transforms Every Relationship You Have Read more »
PHIL: One of our realizations has been that we are always on the same side. This is a big factor in how we have a peaceful relationship. It’s easy for us to say that and expect people to go, “Oh, …
The Secret to a Peaceful Relationship is Realizing You’re on the Same Side Read more »
PHIL: For several reasons, we didn’t have sex for a couple of months, and when we did start moving in that direction, I was very confused because I had never been in a relationship that started with friendship; I had …
Why Being Friends is Such an Important Part of Your Relationships Read more »
MAUDE: The world seems filled with darkness these days, and yet, the light shines brighter through our very real connections to each other. It radiates forth and has greater strength than any transitory, no matter how horrible, aberrations. Phil and …
PHIL: Last week, Maude wrote, “I had a partner once who was very there when he was there, but also often totally not available or present,” and when I asked her about this, she said it created an edginess in …
Why Constancy of Connection is Important in Your Relationships Read more »