Song by Irving Berlin If you think that the title is the name of a familiar song, you would be right.  What is that doing here? ...

I know that in our last listing we spoke about the three L’s. Just to remind you, they are love, lust, and limerence. I won’t deal with...

Love, Lust and Limerence is the title of a workshop I developed for presentation to professional and lay audiences alike. This topic is...

In a recent trip, I had an interesting thing happen that is relevant to this line of discussion about relationships and how to enhance...

Here is another thought on simple interventions people can use to enhance, reinforce and make more permanent the relationship in which...

This is another of the “simple techniques” that are a part of an effective approach to building and maintaining a robust, healthy and...

Being positively thoughtful seems to come easily to people new to a relationship.  The potential for discovery of all the fascinating...

Continuing the conversation I had with the newlyweds on the cruise.  They were interested in the general comments I had made about what...

While roaming around one day on the cruise, I meet a very nice young couple.  We got to talking and had a fairly long conversation while...

I’m sorry I was gone for a long while and was remiss in regularly publishing some posts.  I was away with my wife on an extended fun trip...

In the last post I suggested that we would be looking at some exercises for exploring, understanding and improving relationships.  We’ve...

Well, we’ve been talking about strokes as a way of thinking about our communication patterns and styles.  I get that our discussions...

Last time we talked about strokes and promised to speak more of them this time.  As a reminder, here is the definition we’re using for...

In my last post I observed that people who came to me for assistance often said as their core presenting problem or issue was that they...

In my practice I would routinely ask the question, "why are you here?" or "What do you think has gone wrong with the relationship". As...

If you read the last post you know we are talking about respect being so important to any relationship.  Without it or a sufficient...

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me With thanks to Otis Redding who wrote it and Aretha Franklin who sang it In the scientific...

承诺 The Chinese symbol for commitment Commitment is the life energy of any relationship The dictionary defines commitment as: (Noun)...

The first question many have when it comes to relationships is, what does ”working” look like? There have been many definitions for a...

Relationships are defined by us and we define them.  They are an essential part of who we are, for good or ill.  Here we will look at...