How to Freshen Up Your Relationship
Recently, we needed some odds and ends for the household and went out to some garage sales to hunt for them. We hadn’t gone to any in a long time and we had so much fun together. We both felt …
How to Be Both Together and Separate in Your Relationship
The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus …
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How Sexuality Can Unify Body, Mind and Spirit
Phil: Sex is an important part of our relationship, but we haven’t written about it much, as it is both transcendent and elusive. We see sexual encounters as lying on a spectrum from two people having separate sexual experiences together …
Knowing Yourself is Important For Your Relationship
We have been discussing how to keep love alive in your relationship, suggesting ways to share and interact with your partner that will infuse your relationship with passion and kindness. For this to work, you have to like being with …
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How to Keep Love Alive in Your Relationship
You probably agree on the need to feed your relationship, and yet there still remains the question of how to do it. How do you keep the love and juicy presence of your relationship alive in your everyday life? We’ve …
You Need to Feed Your Relationship
Maude: Do not take your relationship for granted. We don’t usually issue proclamations of this nature, but this cannot be said enough. Valentine’s day and anniversaries and other landmarks are all really nice opportunities to celebrate your relationship. However, if …
Why is Empathy Important in Your Relationship?
Would you like a relationship with affinity, appreciation, being on the same wavelength, being there for someone, communion, a community of interests, compassion, comprehension, concord, good vibrations, hitting it off, insight, rapport, recognition, responsiveness, soul, sympathy and warmth? That’s empathy …
How to Avoid Annoyed in Your Relationship
Phil: When we were writing the newsletter last week, Maude complained that I was irritated and impatient. I wasn’t fully conscious of that until she pointed it out. A lot of the technical aspects – for example, photo production – …
How to Make ALL your Relationships Successful
The ways that we behave in our personal relationships are a pretty good approach to all relationships, whether BFF or your bank teller. Recently Maude was relating an experience with a beloved long term friend of hers. She was bemoaning …
5 Important Things For a New Relationship
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A friend of ours told us a wonderful story of how she found her partner. Rita decided she was ready to enter a relationship. She’d had a number of them in her life, but then it seemed for a long …