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Category: Relationship differences

How Being Intolerant Keeps Your Relationship in Balance

Phil and Maude Jul 30, 2017 Tagged with Balance, Peaceful relationships
How Being Intolerant Keeps Your Relationship in Balance

Some areas of behavior are so deeply a part of a relationship that they seem to occur naturally and receive very little conscious attention. These very same areas can often be critical pillars upon which successful relationships are built. That’s …

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Choose How You Want Your Relationship To Be

Phil and Maude May 7, 2017
Choose How You Want Your Relationship To Be

The other day we were visiting some dear friends who had just moved in together, after they had dated for four years while living separately. They described to us their unique arrangement of sleeping together and sleeping apart. They had …

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Differences – Strength or Weakness in a Relationship?

Phil and Maude Jan 8, 2017 Tagged with Differences
Differences – Strength or Weakness in a Relationship?

Differences are often seen as creating problems and conflict. Three main areas are: how things are done styles of socializing passions How Things are Done From the toilet seat and toothpaste to finances and child-rearing, what our partner does affects us. …

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He’s Making a List and Checking it Twice

Phil and Maude Dec 18, 2016 Tagged with Keeping score, Making lists
He’s Making a List and Checking it Twice

Everybody wants to have a sense of fairness in their relationship, and many people do this by what we call making lists and keeping score. Maybe you take turns to make dinner, but sometimes your partner is busy and you …

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How to Talk Turkey Together This Thanksgiving

Phil and Maude Nov 20, 2016
How to Talk Turkey Together This Thanksgiving

The only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion and studying all modes in …

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You Need Total Acceptance For a Successful Relationship

Phil and Maude Aug 28, 2016 Tagged with Acceptance
You Need Total Acceptance For a Successful Relationship

Have you felt completely accepted by someone in your life? Do you know how the experience of full acceptance changes you? Many people do not have any frame of reference to understand these questions. The relationships in their life have …

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Are You Feeling Alienation in Your Relationship?

Phil and Maude May 22, 2016 Tagged with Acceptance, Peaceful relating, Successful relating
Are You Feeling Alienation in Your Relationship?

We all start out our relationships enamored of each other. We feel that magical connection and even experience the ecstasy of union. We usually become couples because of this bonding, full of the sense that we are on the same …

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How Can Breakups Make For a Successful Relationship?

Phil and Maude May 15, 2016
How Can Breakups Make For a Successful Relationship?

Are you still in the dark times after a relationship breakup? Are you struggling with what happened or who did what? Do the echoes of your past relationship still come back to haunt you? These challenging times that we all …

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How to Make all Your Relationships More Successful

Phil and Maude May 8, 2016
How to Make all Your Relationships More Successful

Now that our book “How Two: Have a Successful Relationship” is out, we’ve been having some really interesting conversations with different people about the book. One of our close friends recently said “There is nothing in your book for me. …

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Do You Fight About the Little Things in Your Relationship?

Phil Mar 6, 2016 Tagged with Acceptance, Compatibility, Successful relationships
Do You Fight About the Little Things in Your Relationship?

We wrote last week about core values and how they are fundamental to a successful relationship. This week, we want to talk about how to handle the small things in life, like which way the toilet roll goes or the …

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