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 »
Couples Counseling and Relationship Problems: Three Tips How to Balance Head, Heart, and Sexuality.
Do you notice how our culture asks us to stay in our heads for work, solving problems, and producing solutions? There’s so much anonymity, accessibility, and approximation with computers, and they solve problems fast. Then we head home and our intimate relationship asks us to “speak from the heart” with our partner, with so much… Read More »
Three Tips How Marriage Counseling Can Help With Sexual Intimacy, When Cancer Symptoms and Cancer Treatments Affect Your Relationship.
Talk with a marriage counselor when overwhelming issues with cancer and intimacy surface. There are three key approaches to remember when dealing with sex and cancer. First, communicate with your partner. Secondly, adjust as necessary. Third, experiment with other forms of intimacy. It’s important to listen to each other’s point of view, and your partner’s… Read More »
Three Tips on Senior Sexual Intimacy, Aging, and Retirement. Couples Counseling To Deepen The Fun, Sex, And Intimacy
So many see sex as just for youngsters. Hogwash! Infuse your sex with intimacy and watch how your relational life improves, especially as you age. Remember YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE! Let go of the expectation that physically active teenagers and twenty-somethings are in their sexual prime. You have wisdom, and experience, so remember to take your… 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 »