Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos…two hours later your fingers are yellow and you’re no longer hungry, but you haven’t been nourished. ~ Clifford Stoll “He told me he was having an affair in a text. After 5 years of marriage, he couldn’t [...]

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. – Anthony Robbins Our lives are a chain of ongoing conversations. With all that practice, why is communication so difficult? Learn the reasons why communication [...]

Dawn: Andy, all we do is argue! Don’t you see that we can’t figure this out by ourselves? We need a counselor. Andy: No way. I won’t tell a stranger all our private stuff. What do you do when you and your partner go round and round arguing about the same things? You know the [...]

The success of marriage comes not in finding the “right” person, but in the ability of both partners to adjust to the real person they inevitably realize they married. – John Fischer Ever wonder why we idealize our partner at the beginning of a relationship and overlook, ignore or deny the things we don’t like? [...]

“I’ve asked my partner for the last two years to come to marriage counseling with me, but he refuses. I don’t understand why he is so adamant.” If we had a penny for every time we’ve heard that in the last 22 years, we’d be rich. There are many reasons that partners do not want [...]

During this past month, we took you on a ride down Extraordinary Relationship Lane, where we visited the three critical stops along your journey to move your partnership to extraordinary: 1) Conscious and Active Co-Creation 2) Courageous Awareness and Compassionate Understanding of Self & Partner 3) Vital Connection in Head, Heart & Hormones To help [...]

The last three weeks we have journeyed down Extraordinary Relationship Lane and made three stops: the city of Conscious & Active Co-Creation, the city of Courageous Awareness & Compassionate Understanding of Self & Partner and the city of Vital Connection in Head, Heart and Hormones. Now it’s time to pack up all the knowledge you [...]

The last two weeks we have journeyed down Extraordinary Relationship Lane with our first stop at the city of Conscious & Active Co-Creation and our second stop at the city of Courageous Awareness & Compassionate Understanding of Self & Partner. This week, we are back on the road and make our third stop at the [...]

The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. [...]

On our Facebook page, there was a post on ‎”10 questions to ask yourself before you decide to divorce.” When I read them it spurred many thoughts that I wanted to share, especially if there are people reading this who are thinking about this very question – Should I stay or should I go? Bob [...]