How many of you are scrambling to find a fun date idea? No matter your relationship status—single, newly dating, long term relationship, or married—it’s always difficult to find a new, fun place for a date. – Falcons game: with our hometown team heading to the season, this … Read More
Date Challenge!!
I LOVE the idea of randomly introducing “date challenges”. The date challenge for this month: leave technology out of it! There is nothing less romantic than a Words with Friends game or a Twitter update while you’re wining and dining with your loved one. I challenge you to put your … Read More
Love life or real life?
One can only hope so. As couples face the busyness of life, with its challenges and struggles, so often they fail to make time for intimacy with each other. I hear, well, our schedules just don’t provide the opportunity for it as much as they used to. Or, I’m not … Read More
Shift Your Thinking for Successful Dating, Part 2
I’m going to wrap up the rethinking for successful dating series with the final 3 tips. See dating as an opportunity to love and serve others See dating as an opportunity to grow in skills Promise yourself that you will make no serious commitment for a certain length of time … Read More
31 days from an affair?
It’s been said that every marital relationship is only 31 days from some sort of an affair. With all of the outside influences that attempt to attack marriages, this stat is possibly very true. Whether it’s an old fling that contacts a party after 25 years or someone new in … Read More
Shift Your Thinking for Successful Dating, Part 1
Dr. Henry Cloud, author of How to Get a Date Worth Keeping, outlines the idea of changing the way you view dating. He suggests that dating is as much about learning your needs and wants as it is about finding the “right person”. This is part one of a series, … Read More
Fear of relationships paralyzing you?
Fear is almost always connected to a bad experience; one you experienced yourself or one you heard about from someone else. This fear can be powerful, it can keep us safe from danger, but it can also keep us from needed change in relationships and life. The world would be … Read More
Praise Loudly
Let the loudest thing that your partner hears from you be praise. It’s easy to let the things that we love about our partners go unsaid or assumed. We have a tendency to voice concerns or criticism and forget to sing praise. So make a conscious effort, every time you … Read More
The Eggplant
Do you ever find yourself with that sinking feeling when you know you are going to have to address a particular topic for the 17th time with your partner? How do you bring it up? I often suggest to my clients to give it a code name…and the more playful … Read More
Relationship Joy
Relationships often become mundane. After the sparkles of dating wear off, the mundane of life can settle in. Rather than longing for the magic of the early stages of the relationship, look for ways to find joy in the mundane. There is always something to celebrate if you are on … Read More