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What you learn about Marriage at 6 will kill your marriage at 36 or 46

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I remember one evening sitting on the couch watching Cinderella with my 6 year old granddaughter. She was enthralled with the movie; eyes riveted; heart obviously attached to Cinderella. Then I thought, “What is she learning about relationships, about love and about marriage?” My heart skipped a few beats as I watched the budding “relationship” …

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Build Intimacy and Good Feelings with Appting

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I’ve rolled out a new process to help you build intimacy and good feelings in your relationship – if both of you are ready. About two thirds who downloaded the Appting Guide considered themselves qualified to use it. Appting is a powerful and simple way to shift the momentum in your marriage or relationship and …

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Marriage Crisis: Shift Your Focus

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When confronted with a marital crisis, your knee jerk reaction is to focus “out there” to stop the crisis. An almost obsessive like focus on your spouse or partner during a marital crisis I find extremely common, at least when the crisis first erupts. Your world is thrown into chaos. Your future suddenly is marked …

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Marriage Crisis Checklist

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Here are the results for you who completed the Marriage Crisis Checklist. (If you didn’t get the Checklist, sign up for the info in the right column and you will be added to my mailing list and will have an opportunity to receive the final product. I’m just beginning research on this project.) These are …

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Seven Reasons Men Have Difficulty with Closeness in Marriage

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What difficulties do men have in creating and developing intimacy and closeness in marriage? I’m first going to outline seven reasons for men having difficulty in getting and keeping closeness in marriage. These reasons emerge from the general coping patterns I talked about earlier. 1. A man may proclaim: “It’s not me. It’s your fault.” …

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Why Men Have Difficulty with Closeness

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What is it that creates men to have difficulty with closeness? And, how does it make you feel? Please understand that this is not about man bashing. I’m a man and I prefer not to be bashed. And women, I assume also don’t like to be bashed. We have enough bashing in our culture. The …

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The Underlying Relationship Meaning of “I Love you but am not ‘in love’ with You”

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So, what exactly is the underlying relationship meaning of “I love you but am not in love with you”? And how do you respond when your partner tells you that? This is part 3 of a seven part blog series on the underlying relationship meaning of the words, “I love you but am not in …

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When to Divorce: What’s Love Got to Do with It?

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Should you really start thinking about when to divorce when your partner says that he or she has “fallen out of love” with you? This is the second part in my series of blog posts on the commonly used phrase  “I love you but am not in love with You,” which will focus on what …

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How to Help Me Fix My Relationship When My Spouse Says “I Love You…But am Not ‘In Love’ with You Anymore”

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So, you ask, how can you possibly help me fix my relationship? How do you do more than swallow hard and go into shock when your spouse says,  “I love you but am not in love with you anymore?” I will present distinctions and what your confused spouse might REALLY be saying to you,which is …

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