Musings on the Anniversary of our Meeting
We share our direct experience of a peaceful harmonious relationship with the hopes that it will contribute to your participation with us in spreading peace one relationship at a time.
Category: Successful Relating
How Balancing Work, Play and Hanging Out Benefits Your Relationship
Fill your life with many forms of play mixed into the fabric of your relationships. The more you balance work and play, effort and ease, being and doing, the happier and the more effective you and your relationships will be.
How Do Presence and Acceptance Add to Your Relationships?
To be truly present you must acknowledge what is and accept what is. The moment you move into wanting something to be different, you are no longer experiencing what is. Any pushing or pulling away is stepping out of the present.
How Being Defended Stops You From Being Close in Your Relationships
If you’re defended, you can’t get closer than a certain distance from another person. This isn’t a problem in day-to-day interactions with people, but it affects your closer relationships. But how can you remain undefended if your partner criticizes you or makes unreasonable demands on you?
What Important Secrets Can We Learn From Animals About Relationships?
PHIL: A dear friend has been badly shaken by the loss of her cat of 15 years. I had a cat called Bert who died unexpectedly, and I was in grief for months. This is something I have heard time …
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How We Create Peace in Our Relationship by Intending To Do So
PHIL: The phrase “belief and intention” is a good description of how we relate. We believe a harmonious relationship is possible, and intend to have one. Our belief comes from various sources. Primarily, we have the experience of a harmonious …
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How Can You Increase Quality Time in Your Relationship?
We’ve spent many years looking at why we have a peaceful relationship, and one of the things is that we consistently spend time together, not only in activities like writing this blog, but time together without any plan. This is …
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Why It’s Important to Look Beyond Relationship Differences to Your Own Reactions
MAUDE: As we write this first blog of the new year, we are posing the question of what goes into a growing fruitful relationship, one where the values of peace and harmony are primary for both parties within the relationship. …
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Phil and Maude’s Favorite Blog Photos of 2022
Following the tradition we began last year, here are our top 12 favorite photos from the blogs of 2022. Click on each one to see it full-size, or click on the link below it to read the blog or hear …
What is Peace in a Relationship and How Can it Change the World?
MAUDE: Our basic theme is sharing ways to create and practice peaceful relating. We believe that this is a practice that can change the world. Why do we think this and how it can be accomplished? We recently spent some …
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