You are having problems with your marriage and nothing you have tried seems to work. What is your next step? Should you start looking through the phone book for a divorce lawyer? Do you work on getting your partner to go to marriage counseling with you? Do you have a session [...]

There are two times that people put the most effort into a relationship–at the beginning, and at the end. At the beginning, we want so much to spend time together that we will make time to do whatever it takes. At the end of a relationship, we spend a lot of effort just [...]

If your partner is distant, cold, and rejecting, how could working on the relationship by yourself possibly make a difference? In this real life example from a relationship coach, we can see one way it could.
Many people have either wounds from the past that continue to hurt or they have areas of their life [...]

Is it an overstatement to say that most people recognize that there are changes they need to make in their lives and their relationships? Why then, do so many people put off making those changes, sometimes indefinitely, while maintaining an existence that they find tedious or painful? Is it that people prefer pain or are [...]

If you are like many women who seem to experience the same problems with men from relationship to relationship, you are probably wondering if all men are the same. You have probably heard many times that “all men want the same thing.” Some women even come to detest men because of their experiences. [...]

You love your spouse, but your relationship is not the way you want it to be. How can you tell your spouse without making things worse? Some people are so afraid of upsetting their spouse that they suffer for years in silence. Ironically, sometimes both partners suffer in silence over the same [...]

Do you sometimes feel that you are really low on your partner’s priority list? Do you feel put aside in favor of the television, computer, friends, family, your partner’s job, or even sleep? When you were dating, you felt so special and now you are not sure if you are special anymore, just [...]

If you are wondering whether you are in love with your partner, then you are not. Being “in love” is something that grabs us like a snake biting us in the butt. However, not feeling in love is not necessarily a sign that something is wrong with your relationship. Don’t confuse being [...]

You know that you love your partner, but don’t have those “in love” feelings anymore. You miss it and you want those feelings back. Some people are willing to have an affair to have those feelings–risking everything they have with their partner. Trying to fill one hole by taking dirt from somewhere [...]

One of the reasons that wives hesitate to try new things in their relationship is for fear of how their husbands will react. If they do something and their husbands get upset, they conclude they did the wrong thing. If their husbands are pleased they believe they are doing the right thing. [...]