Build intimacy and friendship with you partner: Learn the tools you need to become a good listener
How to Become a Good Listener (Tools for a Happy Marriage)
What to Do if Your Partner is Always Unhappy or Dissatisfied about Your Relationship
What to do when your partner continues to express dissatisfaction with your relationship? Learn how to address this issue without losing yourself in the process.
What to Do if You Are Feeling Unfulfilled in Your Relationship
Learn how to best communicate with your partner if you are feeling unfulfilled in your relationship.
How to Be Your Partner’s Greatest Stress Reliever
Learn what to do and what not to do when your partner is going through a stressful time and is counting on you for support
5 Steps to Transforming Relationship Resentments
Learn 5 easy steps to turning moments of anger, hostility, and resentment into moments of greater intimacy and closeness.
How To Turn a Negative Relationship Around
Many couples struggle daily with conflicts, negativity, or unmet needs. Learn how to get unstuck from the negative pattern and turn your relationship around
Negotiating Different Needs for Closeness and Alone Time in Romantic Relationships
How do you negotiate different needs for closeness and alone time in a relationship? Learn how to respect differences without sacrificing your own needs.
The Art of the Apology (How to Achieve True Forgiveness)
The ability to offer a sincere apology is a necessary skill if you want to succeed in your relationship. Learn what to do and what not to do to make your partner forgive you for your wrongs.
The Most Common Ways Partners Attempt to Control Each Other
One of the most frequent issues in relationships is the battle for control and power. Learn how to better recognize the signs of a controlling relationship
How to Respond When Your Partner is Acting “Crazy” (and Reasoning Doesn’t Work)
One of the things that are most difficult for many couples to deal with are those moments when one or both partners just aren’t acting rationally or reasonably. One person, for example, might be full of rage and accusations about something that leaves the other person perplexed, and at their wits end. “All I…
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How to Know if You Are Compromising Too Much in Your Relationship
In many relationships the issue is that couples compromise too much – not too little. Want to know why? Then this blog post is for you…
Reviving Your Relationship: What to Do When Your Partner is Inattentive and Disengaged
One of the most frequent reasons couples come to couples therapy is that one person experiences the other person as withdrawn, checked out, or inattentive. One Woman's Story: A woman in her mid-twenties, for example, complained that her husband enjoyed playing video games more than he enjoyed talking to her. Because she did…
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How to Resolve Recurring Conflicts in Your Relationship
How to Resolve Recurring Conflicts in Your Relationship: John Gottman, one of the most acclaimed researchers on couples conflict, has argued that about two thirds of all issues couples argue about are irresolvable. He calls these issues, perpetual conflictsand they consist of difference in taste and habit that are so deeply ingrained in…
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Are Men from Mars and Women from Venus?
What Do Women Want Out of a Relationship? “Why is My Husband or Boyfriend so Thoughtless and Uncaring?” Many women in heterosexual relationships often find themselves asking this question. Their deepest wish is that their husband or boyfriend will finally wake up and treat them like they truly care. For many women the…
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The Fear of Being Yourself in Your Relationship
Fear and anxiety about being oneself often plays a significant role in people’s relationships. Oftentimes, however, we are not aware that we are holding parts of ourselves back. We have simply adapted to the relationship and learned to be a lesser version of ourselves. A husband, for example, may not really be aware that he…
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Why Couples Fight and How to Stop It
What to Do When Your Relationship Feels Like a Lot of Work: Relationships can be a lot of work, especially when hidden resentments remain unexpressed or when one or both partners begin to feel a lack of connection. Oftentimes such unexpressed needs or feelings can lead to a perpetual cycle of negativity where both partners…
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Emotion is the Music of Our Relationship
A relationship is like a dance. One partner puts their feet in response to where the other puts theirs. And the tune we dance to is almost entirely made up of emotions... When one partner says: "Why do we never go on dates anymore?" they are communicating an emotion. Depending on their tone of…
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