Phil and Maude’s Favorite Blog Photos of 2021
As the year is drawing to a close, we thought it would be fun to share our top 12 favorite photos from the blogs of 2021. Click on each one to see it full-size, or click on the link below …
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How Do You Keep All Your Long-Term Relationships Vital and Fresh?
How do you sustain a long-term relationship, whether it is with your partner, friends or family? With a new relationship, there are whole new areas to explore that can take years, but as time accumulates, you tend to feel that …
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What Kind of Commitment Do Each of You Want in Your Relationship?
We have been discussing relationship decisions with a few of our friends who are venturing into partnerships, are at the point of “should we live together?”, or are working through some of the complex issues of becoming a couple. We …
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Successful Relationships Reading Corner
This week, we wrote about how knowing yourself helps you find mutual solutions in relationships. Here are a variety of approaches to that topic. Conflict Resolution – Creating a Mutual Understanding “There is an old story about two girls arguing …
Why it is Important to Understand Motivations in Our Relationships
Each of us has a unique view of the world – our own. Our view includes our bodily sensations, our external senses and our life experience, from upbringing to education. Nobody else can understand completely what it is like to …
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Why Touch Is Such an Important Factor in All Our Relationships
PHIL: Touch a sea anemone in a rock pool and it will close up. With such a long history, it’s not surprising that touch communicates very deep and powerful messages. Of all our senses, it is the only one that …
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Successful Relationships Reading Corner
This week in our blog, we wrote about how mutual solutions help you to solve disagreements and avoid arguments. Since this is very much a central theme of ours, we have written extensively on it; here are three of our …
How Important Are Your Wants And Needs Compared To Your Core Values?
What do you do when disagreements arise in a relationship? There will be times when it appears you and your partner are at odds. We get along great, but I don’t do well with the step-kids. I am passionate about …
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It Is Important To See The Other’s Viewpoint In Your Relationship
People get into quarrels over all sorts of things, big and small. They get upset because they feel they’re not going to get what they want; anything from a clean kitchen to another child. They might feel hurt, attacked, insulted, …
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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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