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Celebrate Every Day of Your Relationship

Posted on by Maude Posted in Love, Presence, Relationships, Successful Relating —2 Comments ↓
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Valentine’s Day is at the end of this week and we have been reflecting on what we would like to share about this day that’s dedicated to love and the celebration of relationships. I love celebrating any and everything, and am a person who considers birthdays as lasting a week long, full of celebrating the birth of beloveds (And myself, for that matter!)
It is lovely to take time out for a day and let your partner know of your love and your caring and to generally turn attention to your partner.
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How to Make the Differences in your Relationship be Assets

Posted on by Maude Posted in Relationship differences, Relationships, Successful Relating
Courting couple

Life has been particularly full and interesting lately. We’ve been working (and playing) to create and shape the workshop that we are offering in a few weeks. As is often the case when we create something together, we are also gaining more awareness about ourselves, each other and our mutual self.
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In Your Relationship, What You See Is What You Look At

Posted on by Maude Posted in Core Values, Relationships, Successful Relating

The other day we were discussing a concept from psychology professor and neuroscientist Dr. Lisa Barrett’s work that basically states that “the part of the brain responsible for sight, the visual cortex, receives only 10% of its connections from the retina.
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Phil and Maude’s Friday Feature: Karen Haddigan

Posted on by Maude Posted in Friday Feature, Love, Reading, Relationships
Book cover: Dating after Fifty

Today we’re pleased to feature Karen Haddigan, author of  Secrets of Dating After Fifty: The Insider’s Guide to Finding Love Again.
Karen writes and does presentations on online dating for those just returning to the dating scene. She offers up-to-date information on its changes, and works with people in the area of reinventing themselves after crisis like loss or divorce of a partner.
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In Your Relationships, Worry is not Love

Posted on by Maude Posted in Love, Relationships —6 Comments ↓

Yesterday was a day full of insight and contradiction. I got a text from a friend who had apparently reached out to me a number of times without getting a response. She said, “I haven’t heard back and I’m worried.”
I get it.
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Phil and Maude’s Friday Feature: Surrender Yourself to the Relationship Guest Post by Bruce Kirkpatrick

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This week, we’re pleased to share with you a guest post by Bruce Kirkpatrick. We think you’ll enjoy his slant on relationships.
The word surrender often gets a bad rap. Surrender can be what you do when you are defeated—like in a war or a battle or a competition.
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The Challenge of Accepting My Partner’s Approach to Illness

Posted on by Maude Posted in Our Process, Relationships —9 Comments ↓

Hi, Maude here. I’ve been facing some challenges to our usually very easy practice of total acceptance in this last period of time.
What is this issue that has been so difficult for me? Healthcare and how Phil and I differ on how to deal with illness.
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Be Creative With Your Relationship Problems

Posted on by Maude Posted in Our Process, Peace, Relationships —4 Comments ↓

We are often asked if we don’t really fight, sometimes at least; if there aren’t times and places where we compromise to get peace in our relationship or yield to our partner to make them feel good. They ask “No storms?” or wonder if we’re suppressing our feelings.
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Why Intimacy is Important in Relationships

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In viewing our relationship and from interviews with successful couples, one of the areas we have found to be of universal importance is intimacy. It is a basic need of people, so they seek or are in a relationship as a means of having that experience.
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The Importance of Belief and Intention in Relationships Part I: Maude

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We were recently asked during a podcast interview what factors are important to starting a new kind of relationship, one in which peace reigns and fighting and arguments are absent.
Great question, and our first answer is always that you have to be sure that your core values match, both in each other’s actions and words.
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