How Your Connections Expand Your World Beyond Yourself
To fully connect with another person involves bringing your full self – the one that sings and dances, grieves and fears. Connections change you, not by force, but by your presence.
Tag: Connection
What’s in the Cards for Your Relationship?
PHIL: You talked at lunch about two friends who spend much of their day in each other’s company doing activities together, and I said that is not us; we have a different balance, though I suspect it’s not totally equal, …
How Relationships and Community Fulfill the Same Need for Connection
PHIL: In this culture, there is a strong focus on the individual. It is your responsibility to take care of yourself, to stay alive, to plan for the future. And yet, we are not a solitary species; we are a …
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The Pleasures and Importance of Shared Experience in Your Relationships
MAUDE: Phil is always saying that “we are a social species, and connection is a deep need we all have.” One of the ways that we achieve this in our various relationships is by sharing our experiences. This generally happens …
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Are You Emotionally Present in Your Relationships or Just Not There?
MAUDE: Last night, as we were talking about what we want to write a post about, a way of being present came up, and here we are with the post that grew out of that conversation. After an evening jamming …
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How Radical Non-Interference Makes Our Relationship Feel So Peaceful
MAUDE: I’m going to give you an update on the birthday plans I shared in July of 2025. You might be wondering what that has to do with peaceful relationships. Well, my experiences around this have given me lots of …
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Why Communicating Strengthens the Connection in Your Relationships
MAUDE: Last night Phil and I were sitting together, and we started talking about how each of us was feeling. The conversation wasn’t about anything big or life-changing. It turned out that neither of us was feeling really right, but …
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Why Being in Continuous Connection is Vital for Peaceful Relationships
PHIL: What we are trying to do in these posts is to describe how we are in as much detail as possible so that you, dear readers, can share our experience of living in peace. We have said before that …
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Why Constancy of Connection is Important in Your Relationships
PHIL: Last week, Maude wrote, “I had a partner once who was very there when he was there, but also often totally not available or present,” and when I asked her about this, she said it created an edginess in …
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What’s That Special Connection in Peaceful Relationships About?
PHIL: We write about our relationship because it is so good, and we know that other people could live this way, too. We describe as closely as possible exactly how we are and what we do, rather than drawing on …
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