What you say in a relationship can be as important as what you do. Language and words have power and can diffuse a situation or set off a bomb. They can bring about transformative experiences, or cause repetition of the …
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With our new book coming out next week, it’s a good time to share our personal reasons for writing it and how it came about. Every relationship starts out well, and so did ours. As it continued, we were both …
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Wow. The date of the first draft tells us our new book How Two: Have a Successful Relationship has been nearly two years in the making. But it’s finally ready, and the Kindle ebook will be available for pre-order this coming …
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The popularly held belief concerning relationships is that all of them have conflict, and that it is how you handle the conflict that is important. In fact it is put forth that if people claim not to have conflict in …
Many people write about conflict in relationships: how it’s bound to happen, how it’s better than letting things stew, how to fight fairly, how you must counterbalance it with good aspects of the relationship. But here’s the thing: we don’t …
In order to experience the kind of peace filled and passionate relationships we describe, it is necessary to go through a transformation. But what do we mean by this kind of transformation and how do you get there? It is …
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It was a year after meeting that we noticed we hadn’t had any arguments, and 10 years on from that, it’s still true. Let us clarify our terms here. We have disagreements – things where we have different points of …
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One requirement for a successful relationship is that your core values match. What do we mean by core values? Well, they are what you value – duh – and you’re gonna have to name them for yourself. Not everybody holds …
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The contest is over and the winner is … K. Kortbein! Congratulations, K, and your book will be on its way as soon as it’s released. (The contest was to write a quote for the picture, and the prize was …
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February is a big month of special celebrating for us: it’s both our anniversary and Valentines Day. It is delicious to get together on such special occasions. We love the sense of it being an occasion just for the two …
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