Someone to Call Home
If you’re a lucky person traveling through this life of ours, you’ve experienced what it’s like to call a person not a place home. It’s through this person that we are able to be ourselves good and not so good including looking our best and looking our worst. When we’re strong we help lift our home and when we’re weak or face the inevitable challenges of life on the planet we seek shelter at home. read more…
Managing Marital Expectations
Life and married life have a way of dripping one day… month….. year into another. What happens without at least a little expectations management can often turn out like the finger-paint picture we did as children. The pictures were fabulous with lovely lines and brilliant colors going round and round and all over the place. They were masterpieces. read more…
Self-Soothe and Soothe Your Spouse
Let’s talk about self soothing and soothing our spouses for a moment. Have you ever heard anything bad about soothing. For example, ” it was just awful the way She/he soothed me. It just made me feel so damn good”. ” Honey, I wish you wouldn’t soothe me like that it make me feel so good”.. No I think we need lots of person to person soothing behavior in this world.
Start A Fire in Your Marriage
What’s the one thing we know about fire? It can spread from a small spark to a huge event. So encouraging you to re-light the fire in your marriage by taking some small steps and get your mind off the end game. In marriages with little romance couples try to much or focus on the “big event” rather than a little hugging, caressing, massaging, and/or kissing. And yes, when spouses are unhappy/angry/disagreeable it’s really hard to think about kissing and hugging……
Do it With Me Not Just for Me
Some of us do a lot of things for our spouses. They ask us or they want us to do these things for many reasons. We do them because we care or feel obligated or both. There is however so many things our partners want us to do with them together and not just for them.