Do You Show Love and Respect in Your Relationship?
In this week’s blog, we asked if you show love and respect in your relationship. These articles cover different aspects of this very important aspect.
Author: Phil and Maude
How To Find a Mutual Solution In Your Relationships With Our Process
We have a process of exploring our wants and suggesting alternatives, and in this way, we find a resolution that works for both of us. It works for decision-making, too, when we are not clear on a direction.
The Powerful Lessons We Learned About Relationships On Our Trip
Experiencing the moments as they present themselves (pun intended!) brings peace and harmony to life and to relationships. This is one of the underlying practices that creates the peaceful harmony we experience.
Choose Total Acceptance: It’s a Radical Way to Peace and Harmony
Total acceptance is the defining difference between not just experiencing better relating, but for a living peace that provides deep soul satisfying relationships. This is a radical concept, yet once understood, it can become a very natural way of being with another.
How Acceptance is the Best Path to a Peaceful Relationship
Recognizing someone else’s world is different is how you have a successful relationship. When you realize their life and desires are just as deep and valid as yours, then you realize that trying to change it would be just as unpleasant as if they started telling you what to do.
Phil, Maude and ChatGPT Talk About Peace in Relationships
ChatGPT is a recent software project that is fed huge swaths of writing and (to simplify tremendously) responds based on what it has read. We asked it to “Write a blog on peace in the style of Phil and Maude” and also did the same ourselves.
Add Gratitude to Being Positive and Watch Your Relationships Blossom
Notice all that you are grateful for in your intimate relationships: acknowledge it, speak it, feel it. They are the precious things of a life shared: the sound of someone’s voice, their big and small acts of service to you, what you learn from them.
How Can You Be Away and Still Be Present in Your Intimate Relationships?
Maude just went away to a women’s retreat, and on return, we talked about how easy a separation like that was; we retain the sense that we remain connected. We don’t feel distance when one of us goes somewhere, at least not as a sense of loss or something missing.
What is the Most Important Thing at the Core of Your Relationships?
Understanding core values and learning what yours are is foundational to creating peaceful harmonious relationships. We differentiate values from wants and needs on a spectrum of ever-increasing importance. This scale starts with wants which are the most ephemeral, moves through needs, and then to values which rarely change.
How Are You Committed to Behaving in Your Relationships?
We are completely undefended with each other because we both know that neither of us is ever going to attack the other. We are not in competition. There is never any energy emanating from a desire for power or dominance.