What IS this MAGIC?!?! (Your Spouse Will Thank You) Here’s a question that I get from my couples all the time. And it’s not even just the couples that I see in my office. It’s people that I haven’t seen in a long time. Or it will come from people that […]
Balance Your Kids & Marriage: What NO ONE Tells You If you’ve said to yourselves that your kids’ activities, and games, and practices, and whatever they’re into — play rehearsals — that that’s right, because they have them every night of the week, and you had to go to all of […]
Regretting Your SUMMER Already?! Do This Now Instead We are two-thirds of the summer in. So there’s a third left. And my question for you is: what of the things that you and your spouse decided that you wanted to make happen this summer—what of them are yet to be done? […]
Resentment in Marriage – Can We Fix It? Resentment—it’s a thing, even in marriage. Can you fix it? Can you get rid of it? That’s the million-dollar question. And my answer is, absolutely. You need three things, though. You’ve got to figure out what it is that you’re resentful about. Specifically, […]
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 […]
