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Category: Spectrum of Acceptance

What is the Most Important Thing at the Core of Your Relationships?

Phil and Maude Apr 23, 2023 Tagged with Commitment, Communication, Conflict-free relating
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.

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How to Create Peace in Relationships and Life by Knowing Your Core Values

Phil and Maude Oct 9, 2022
How to Create Peace in Relationships and Life by Knowing Your Core Values

MAUDE: Understanding core values and learning what yours are is foundational to the process we teach for creating peaceful harmonious relationships. We differentiate values from wants and needs on a spectrum of ever-increasing importance. This scale starts with wants which …

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What Important Core Values Underlie Your Relationship Wants And Needs?

Maude Apr 4, 2021
What Important Core Values Underlie Your Relationship Wants And Needs?

We have often discussed core values and how they are critical to any successful relationships: partnerships, friendships, mates. If you understand what your basic and fundamental ones are, your deal breakers, and spend time exploring them, this will become your …

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You Need Total Acceptance For a Successful Relationship

Phil and Maude Jul 12, 2020
You Need Total Acceptance For a Successful Relationship

We’re busy preparing for today’s workshop, so here is a reprint of a much-loved blog. 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 …

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How to Reach a Mutual Solution in Your Relationship

Phil and Maude Jul 15, 2018
How to Reach a Mutual Solution in Your Relationship

We’re coming up to fourteen years together, and it’s still such an easy relationship. That’s because we want to be in a relationship and we want it to be easy. Let’s look at those separately. Firstly, why do we, or …

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How to Look at Differences in Your Relationship

Phil and Maude Jul 8, 2018
How to Look at  Differences in Your Relationship

Squabbles in a relationship are like stones in your shoes; they don’t have to be there. They often come from not fully accepting your partner. Learning about acceptance within a relationship is a way to avoid hobbling along, always being …

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Why Are Core Values Important in Your Relationship?

Phil and Maude Jul 1, 2018
Why Are Core Values Important in Your Relationship?

PHIL: Have you ever been in a relationship where the same issue kept coming up again and again? It may have been twice a week or twice a year, but it was something the two of you could never resolve. …

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Excerpt From Lynelle Paulick’s Radio Show

Phil and Maude Nov 6, 2016 Tagged with Acceptance
Excerpt From Lynelle Paulick’s Radio Show

Lynelle Paulick has a radio show on the local UCSB station on Tuesdays at noon and is hoping to be picked up by KCSB, which has wider So.Cal. coverage. We were on the show last Tuesday and spent a wonderful …

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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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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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