Plan for Retirement: But Keep Working on Your Relationship
Connect in your golden years and make your last years together your best years. Planning for retirement can be an exciting and terrifying proposition. There’s all the exit planning for leaving your career, there are [...]
Are You Making Time?
Giving practical ideas on how to adjust your schedule; and some real time advice on how you can make time for each other. What couples want: I recently polled some of my clients and asked [...]
Sex After Baby
Advice for men and women on how to lovingly approach renewing a healthy and passionate sex life after you have a baby Congratulations on the new baby. It’s a magical time for you and your [...]
You were Meant for a Great Love
You don’t get all the amazing things in life and love unless you believe they exist. I spoke to a couple recently in which one of the partners was feeling extremely dissatisfied with the state [...]
Go Be Successful. I’ve Got Your Back
They key to business success is having a solid relationship at home that you can count on. When we see prominent people, people who are successful in their career path, business owners, politicians; people at [...]
Building a Bridge of Connection
Rebuilding a lost connection when you feel you’re down in the valley all alone and your partner is across the wide and empty chasm. Loneliness doesn’t always mean you are alone. If you’re struggling with [...]
Fair Fighting
When we’re trying to sit down and resolve conflicts in a relationship, we have to approach it a certain way. This is going to come across a lot like a problem-solving approach, and it is. [...]
EFT and Conflict Resolution
EFT is a type of counseling that focuses on adult relationships and attachments. It’s an attachment-based model. The counselor looks at the relationship issues with regard to the connection that couples develop a secure bond [...]
Emotional Affair: The Warning Signs
This is a true story about a couple where one of the partners had an emotional affair. John (not his real name) was married to Jill for approximately 30 years; the two of them were [...]
5 Characteristics of Successful Couples
As a couples counselor, I work with individuals and couples with many different issues that are preventing their relationship from feeling an emotional connection. Through the years of working as a couples counselor, many people [...]
