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Is There a Better Way Than Compromise?

Phil and Maude Jun 12, 2016 Tagged with Peaceful relationships
Is There a Better Way Than Compromise?

“We are always compromising, and I feel like I’m slowly giving up everything I want, just to have an agreement.” “We’ve gotten pretty good at finding compromises when we disagree, but I’m beginning to think I’m losing myself and my …

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How to Improve Your Relationship With Active Listening

Phil and Maude Jun 5, 2016 Tagged with Active Listening
How to Improve Your Relationship With Active Listening

Often when asked about the important factors to relationship success, we mention active listening. Many people may not really understand what this is. In short, it’s how to really hear what the other person is saying. You might think you …

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How Important Is Individuality in a Successful Relationship?

Phil and Maude May 29, 2016 Tagged with Acceptance, Individuality and Relationship
How Important Is Individuality in a Successful Relationship?

“I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, …

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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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Words Are as Important as Deeds in a Relationship

Phil and Maude May 1, 2016 Tagged with Language, Words
Words Are as Important as Deeds in a Relationship

What you say in a relationship can be as important as what you do. Language and words have power and can diffuse a situation or set off a bomb. They can bring about transformative experiences, or cause repetition of the …

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Why Did We Write How Two: Have a Successful Relationship?

Phil and Maude Apr 24, 2016 Tagged with Peaceful relating, Successful relationships
Why Did We Write How Two: Have a Successful Relationship?

With our new book coming out next week, it’s a good time to share our personal reasons for writing it and how it came about. Every relationship starts out well, and so did ours. As it continued, we were both …

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Knowing Yourself Helps You Have a Successful Relationship

Phil Apr 17, 2016 Tagged with Conflict-free relating, Peaceful relationships
Knowing Yourself Helps You Have a Successful Relationship
Dolls by Nicole Turofsky

Maude is away this weekend being Nana (and loving it!), so I’m flying solo in this week’s blog. Time and time again we describe our relationship as peaceful and free of conflict and hear “That’s nice for you, but…,” so …

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Great News About How Two: Have a Successful Relationship

Phil and Maude Apr 10, 2016 Tagged with Successful relationships
Great News About How Two: Have a Successful Relationship

Wow. The date of the first draft tells us our new book How Two: Have a Successful Relationship has been nearly two years in the making. But it’s finally ready, and the Kindle ebook will be available for pre-order this coming …

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