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 […]
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 […]
This post is for you IF you are FRUSTRATED that your Spouse isn’t recovering FAST ENOUGH AFTER INFIDELITY. My Red Light/Green Light Experience As I was driving to the office this morning, at one of the intersections, I got stopped at a red light. I was the first one in line […]
This MIGHT just be THE MOST unrecognized BREAKER OF TRUST. Did you know this? You are not who you say are. You are not what you say you’re going to do but never ACTUALLY do. Soooo… The million dollar question is: Are YOU doing this? Meaning: Where you’re saying you’re gonna SAY something, […]
Know Your Impact — First, Story Time With the first snow of the season landing on our lawn, I was reminded of this particular night last winter. We had just spent two weeks at a beach with the whole entire extended family. We were coming back, the flight was a little delayed. […]
How to Recover Best – First, The Question “My husband said something hurtful to me, and I have a hard time with it. Sometimes I won’t think about it, other times it’s all I can think about. He has apologized and said that he didn’t mean it. I always tell him then […]
These are the three rules that I’d advise you adopt in your marriage, whether you work with me or not. They are non-negotiable in my office – Once I start working with my couples, we discuss these right away. Session one, literally. If you’d rather watch a video where I talk about […]
Turns out I have a co-conspirator at the Minnesota Department of Transportation. Who knew? As a driver, I have a bunch of habits that (sometimes) my kids laugh at – like talking to other drivers while I’m on the road. But nothing irks me more than when people don’t use blinkers. I’m fine […]
Best of May’s Marriage Advice – On HONESTY Let me ask you something. How real have you been with your spouse about what’s going on between you two? And I don’t mean- how many times you said a thing or two, or much how much of the neighborhood heard about it also- […]
