by Zev Halpern | Jul 9, 2015 | Communication, Fighting, Meeting Needs, Recharge My Marriage!
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...
by Zev Halpern | Mar 27, 2015 | Communication, Recharge My Marriage!
Are you savvy in Marriage Politics? Marriage isn’t political you say. Posturing, maneuvering, lobbying and manipulating are just some of the features we employ knowingly or not throughout our marriages. Politics isn’t bad …it just is. And it most...
by Zev Halpern | Feb 4, 2015 | Communication, Uncategorized
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...
by Zev Halpern | Feb 4, 2015 | Communication, Uncategorized
Remember the beginning of your relationship when you fell in love with this special person who showed you so much love and attention. Where did they go? You got married and at some point you realized that all that wonderful attention and love which by the way was the...
by Zev Halpern | Feb 4, 2015 | Communication, Fighting, Uncategorized
After counseling couples for over 23 years and this being my 60th birthday I’m in a reflective mood. So I have seen that when we agree to marriage we agree to some conflict. Somewhere in our minds we know we’ve heard this isn’t all hot sex and whispering sweet...
by Zev Halpern | Feb 4, 2015 | Communication, Meeting Needs, Uncategorized
Can I go to the gym? May I please take that art class? Can I play poker tonight? Girls are getting together can I go? Good marriage is considerate marriage. Considerate marriage is not obedience based. It is not the military…..Permission to leave the room Honey! Some...
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