YOUR Rate of Showing-Upness in Your Marriage What if your rate in your marriage— If your rate of showing-upness, regardless of what your spouse does or doesn’t do— What if your rate of showing-upness was non-negotiable? Like, non-question. What would be happening then? Don’t Do the 100!!!! When married couples […]
When Your Spouse Messes Up – Half the Battle is WON with This One of the powerful things that you can do when your spouse has just messed something up—right, they’re like, screwed up in some way—is to take a moment. The moment that you can look at that and remind […]
The Powerhouse Kind of Dates for Your Marriage If you and your spouse are sitting there saying, “We have no time, we don’t have the money, we don’t have family in town, we don’t have babysitters, or the ones that we do know we don’t trust, we don’t know where we […]
Listening Well in Your Marriage We are taught how to speak up. To a degree, I would argue. I don’t think we do it justice – BUT – at least it’s within our awareness. How to present, how to talk, how to share our opinions – with our spouse or otherwise. What […]
Today, I have a question for you and it’s THIS: HOW are you STARVING your marriage? Ever so subtle, I know. But for real — What is your energy leak? Where are you suffocating your relationship with your spouse at the cost of something else? On one of my recent walks I noticed […]
You Only Need ONE Thing You don’t need a hundred different things to start. To start making your marriage better—that is, your marriage—your spouse doesn’t require that. You only need one. Go out there. Find one thing that you appreciate about your spouse. Find one thing that you love about your husband […]
The Most Underrated Skill in Marriage You not telling your spouse how something landed with you isn’t helping anybody. You keeping the feedback to yourself, as if it were some kind of national secret, isn’t doing either one of you any good. When she knows that the backrub got all of […]
Riddle me this: If you were having dinner with the CEO of your company… Your all-time favorite teacher who is now retired and wanted to meet up… Oprah or Mother Teresa… (assuming you respect and esteem them highly) Or your favorite celebrity, someone you LOVE and ADORE and would go to the ends […]
Your Money Conversations, Failed (No More) The fact that you don’t nail it at your first try is normal. Most people don’t. Most couples have to go about it a couple different times to get the conversation, let’s just say, about money (since that’s what we will be talking about during the month […]
The one exception, as it relates to money spent in your marriage where you BOTH don’t need to be aligned – Where you don’t have to consult your spouse on money, and your spouse doesn’t have to consult you – It’s when it happens within the confines of FUN MONEY. Sounds fun, right? […]
