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Category: Successful Relating

How It’s Possible to Practice Acceptance in Your Relationships

By Phil and Maude Posted on November 10, 2024 Posted in Peace, Relationships, Successful Relating Tagged with Acceptance
How It’s Possible to Practice Acceptance in Your Relationships

MAUDE: One of the many things that happened this week was a visit from a very dear friend, who stayed with us for over a week. This visit was profound, yet simple and easy at the same time. It gave …

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How to Remove Tension and Find Peace in Your Relationships

By Phil and Maude Posted on November 3, 2024 Posted in Peace, Relationships, Successful Relating Tagged with Conflict, Differences
How to Remove Tension and Find Peace in Your Relationships

PHIL: We had a couple of heart-to-heart conversations this week; one about desires on my part, and one about the desires of Maude. I don’t want to describe them because they both involved other people, and the point of mentioning …

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How to Embrace Differences, Not Trip Over Them

By Phil and Maude Posted on October 27, 2024 Posted in Relationship differences, Relationships, Successful Relating Tagged with Core values, Differences
How to Embrace Differences, Not Trip Over Them

PHIL: I want to jam on the idea that all people are different. No one is exactly like anyone else. So in your relationships, especially the close ones, you’re going to run into differences. They’re inevitable. The fact that the …

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It’s Important to Know You Can Choose Peaceful Relationships

By Phil and Maude Posted on October 20, 2024 Posted in Peace, Relationships, Successful Relating Tagged with Choice
It’s Important to Know You Can Choose Peaceful Relationships

MAUDE: In our post last week, we wrote about the struggles we have all been going through in the tense situation before this country’s election, the raging wars in the world, climate change, and the overall uncertainty and anxiety caused …

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How Your Peaceful Relationships Are a Shelter From the Storm

By Phil and Maude Posted on October 13, 2024 Posted in Peace, Relationships, Successful Relating Tagged with Sacred Space
How Your Peaceful Relationships Are a Shelter From the Storm

We share an inner peace that is beyond any of the effects of the changing world we live in. This path of peace never wavers and serves to strengthen our individual struggles. Find and create a Sacred Space for yourself.

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Why is Being Honest so Important in Your Relationships?

By Phil and Maude Posted on October 6, 2024 Posted in Relationships, Successful Relating Tagged with Communication, Honesty
Why is Being Honest so Important in Your Relationships?

Speaking directly doesn’t happen naturally because we all create a persona for the outside world. It’s easy to take that feeling into a relationship, but here’s why that is a bad idea: it’s a limitation on feeling our full self; we cannot sit comfortably at the center of our being.

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What We Have Learned About Peace And Harmony Through Our Relationship

By Phil and Maude Posted on September 29, 2024 Posted in Peace, Relationships, Successful Relating
What We Have Learned About Peace And Harmony Through Our Relationship

Today is our wedding anniversary and it brought us to reflect on what we have learned about the potentials of all relationships from the experience of ours. Here are our musings on just that for our blog this week.

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Peace in a Relationship—How Can it Change the World?

By Phil and Maude Posted on September 22, 2024 Posted in Peace, Relationships, Successful Relating
Peace in a Relationship—How Can it Change the World?

Yesterday was The International Day of Peace. It’s a great time to think of what you are doing within your own life to make peace a living reality. Here’s an example of one of our favorite projects: I Declare World …

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How Honesty Leads to Trust in Your Relationships

By Phil and Maude Posted on September 15, 2024 Posted in Peace, Relationships, Successful Relating Tagged with Honesty, Trust
How Honesty Leads to Trust in Your Relationships

One of the steps to a peaceful relationship is honesty. When you share honestly with another, you set aside fears and defenses. You can share a bit and when you are accepted and respected, when you feel seen and heard, you dare to open a bit more.

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Make Service a Core Value in Your Relationships

By Phil and Maude Posted on September 8, 2024 Posted in Core Values, Relationships, Successful Relating Tagged with Service
Make Service a Core Value in Your Relationships

One of the signs of a peaceful relationship is when the element of service to the other person is a core value for that relationship. Learning what this is takes paying attention to the other person, and being open to listen and hear what they might need or want for support.

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