Do you find yourself fighting all the time, or avoiding subjects with your partner that could cause conflict? What about not saying anything because the subject is too emotional? These common issues can be solved through reflective listening: a way to hear, understand, and empathize with each other. Tips for Reflective Listening and Fair Fighting… Read More »
Relationship Counseling: How to Go From Passionate to Compassionate Love, and Beyond to Novelty and Surprise.
Don’t we all remember the passion in the first couple years of our relationship? Why did it change? Marital counseling can help unlock the mysteries of how intimate relationship changes and grows over time, so you can appreciate the growth from super-hot sex in the beginning, to a deeper happiness, with more surprises and twists.… Read More »
Affair, Infidelity and Relationship Counseling: A Safe Place to Find What’s True for You, and Heal.
Haven’t we all heard of what happened to Tiger Woods, Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Lopez, and David Letterman, among other men and women? How can one work through the pain of an affair, and understand what happened, with the help of a counselor? What is your truth about your relationship? Since 1992, I have… Read More »
Power Struggles: Save Your Marriage Through Couples Counseling
Are you fighting all the time? Does it seem like you’re in a debate over who’s right? Is your partner more of an adversary than a loving friend? Other signs are the “minimizer”, who hides behind the paper, clams up, and claims nothing is the matter. Or, the person who is the “maximizer”, one who… Read More »
Nine Ways You Can Choose To Be Happy in Building Intimacy. Foster and Hix’s book Applied to Healthy Marriage
Rick Foster and Greg Hix have written a wonderful book titled How We Choose To Be Happy. They interviewed hundreds of people and found nine choices, qualities, or states that generate, uncover, and evoke happiness in people. I have added additional comments regarding intimacy to their main choices below. 1) Intention. Foster and Hix found… Read More »