Stronger at the Broken Places

How challenges can strengthen your relationship

Linda and Charlie Bloom

Struggle and Triumph With Bipolar Disorder

A Personal Perspective: Nancy Rosenfeld is an ordinary hero—a woman who lives with bipolar disorder, a devastating and life-threatening illness.

9 Strong Predictors of a Successful Relationship

A recent study explores the question of what makes a relationship successful.

The Shame Trap: I Am a Mistake

There is a difference between shame and guilt. Guilt means I made a mistake. Shame means I am a mistake. Shame is an immensely painful feeling that we are all alone, unworthy.

Individuation: Gaining a Clearer Sense of Self

Their relationship progressed when they were forced to spend time apart.

Love Is the Answer to Most Problems

As college students, my husband and I were hippies in the sixties. Sometimes our generation was referred to as “the flower children.” We were part of an idealistic movement.

Kindness Is the Best Guide

For eight years Steve and Jim enjoyed a wonderful relationship. Then, Steve and Jim were faced with a life-threatening challenge that pushed play off completely.

Sex Is Good for You

Sex releases hormones like oxytocin, which makes us feel good.

Love Is a Great Mystery

The notion that love is a practice that requires the cultivation of some cherished beliefs about the meaning of love...

The Importance of Deep Listening in a Relationship

8 skills that we can learn from listening to others.

Are You Eligible for a Great Relationship?

Some couples start their partnership with a strong capacity to love and be loved. But others have to work long and hard to grow.

What Is Talking Meditation?

The benefit of slowing down the pace of communication.

Feeling Distant Doesn't Necessarily Mean that a Relationship Is Over

Addressing distance can lead to greater intimacy.

When a Repair Attempt Fails

Understanding the critical importance of repair attempts empowers is all to restore trust that has been damaged.

Alleviating Loneliness: Steps to Nurture a Support System

Loneliness in the pandemic can wear on a person...

The Inner Critic Is a Big Bully

The voice of the critic is the internalized voice of significant figures from our developmental years.

Are You Acting Out Your Pain or Working Through It?

When we act out, our inner conflicts show themselves repeatedly in poor choices and limited well-being in relationships.

Strengthening Qualities to Enhance Love in our Relationships

How do we learn to love ourselves so we can better love people in our lives?

The Best Things in Life Aren’t Things

When a person feels gratitude toward us, it has very little, if anything, to do with how much money we have spent on them.

Getting the Most Out of Marriage Counseling

By the time a couple reaches out to ask for help from a marriage counselor, the partners are often locked into painful, angry patterns.

Perfectly You

A Latina immigrant triumphs.

Are You Trying to Change Another Person?

Trying to change a person simply wears you out. Thankfully, there's another option.

The Value of Hope Therapy

When people have disappointment, loss, and frustration in their lives, they don’t necessarily experience it and then bounce back right away.

Setting the Stage for a Miracle to Occur

Couples that have broken through to a higher level of delight and enjoyment in their partnership reflect back on troubled times.

Compassion Deepens Our love

Many people have experienced a significant degree of emotional injuries in their early lives.

Inspiration From Older Women

We can all learn from Sadie.

In Relationships, Challenges Need to Be Endured and Mastered

Becoming "the right person" — a more loving person.

Intimate Connection Is the Center of the Wheel

When we appreciate the importance of our romantic partnership, we can see that it is the center of the wheel.

The 25 Statements Necessary for Relationship Success 

In my 55 years as a coach, I have discovered that most misunderstandings are preventable if people can master what I call “the 25 statements necessary for relationship success.”

Well-Stocked Base Camp

Just like the well-prepared climbers, those in successful partnerships have a fully supplied base camp to embark on their adventures...

How Incompletions Can Sink the Ship of Your Relationship

Consider the story of the dried beans on the cargo ship.

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