“The fundamental glue that holds anyrelationship together is trust.” ~ Brian Tracy Trust is essential for a relationship to thrive. It’s the foundation upon which a strong partnership rests. When you fall in love, you hand over your heart to your partner and count on him taking good care of it. You risk depending on [...]

What do you think makes a marriage happy? The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, in their most recent study of The State of Our Unions, found the following five factors are predictive of being “very happy” in marriages with children. 1) Sexual satisfaction with your partner The first thing to go once [...]

“For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.” ~ Warren Beatty On our wedding day couples vow their relationship will be monogamous. And yet, studies show 40% of women and 60% of men break that promise. Though we are not living up to the ideal of monogamy, we continue to [...]

“Marriage is one long conversation checkered with disputes.”~ Robert Louis Stevenson Why is communication, the lifeblood of relationships, so difficult? A big part of the answer is we interpret messages through filters such as our gender, life experience, beliefs, mood, values, knowledge and culture. We make assumptions about what our partner is saying as their [...]

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832 Will marriage become a thing of the past? Some frightening statistics were recently reported by the Pew Research Center. They found the rate of marriage in the United States is [...]

Remember the song “Where is the Love?” by Roberta Flack: “Where is the love You said was mine all mine Till the end of time Was it just a lie Where is the love” What does happen to “the love” over time in committed relationships? We are often confronted with this question when couples come [...]

“We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations – we’re doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.” ~ Rodney Dangerfield How is sex in your relationship? It’s estimated that one in five couples live in a “sexless” marriage, defined by experts as having sex fewer than 10 times [...]

“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero Why is it that on the day couples say “I do,” 100 percent of us commit to monogamy, yet ultimately many people break that promise? During the lifetime [...]

Did you ever wonder, just what New Years is all about? It is the celebration of one moment in life that symbolizes time’s passing. It reminds us to take an intentional accounting of how we have lived our lives over the previous year and consciously consider what changes we want to make for the next [...]

New Years Eve is upon us once again. What resolutions will you make for 2012? Many people vow to get healthier, lose weight, stop smoking, start exercising. Why not resolve to consciously create a more loving relationship with your partner? Here are some ideas to jump start building a deeper connection: Carve out sacred time [...]