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Does your partner seem distant? Use these 6 life-changing physical and emotional intimacy skills to get the relationship of your dreams. [Read more]
When you’re struggling in your marriage because you’re getting hurt, neglected or criticized, it’s so discouraging and draining. That’s especially true if you’ve been practicing The Six Intimacy Skills™ that you hear about on this blog or my podcast, or in
If your relationship feels unbearably hard and hopeless right now, that tells me you’re probably very hurt, and you’ve been getting hurt for a long time now. You just want that to stop–the way you’d want to stop hitting your
Before I had a marriage support group, John and I were struggling. I was really hurting and wanted to end my marriage. Marriage counseling didn’t work for us, and I didn’t know what else to do to get my husband
I used to think self-care was either a code word for exercise or something indulgent that other women did, like going to the spa all weekend. Who has that kind of time and money? Still, I knew I should do
It’s so dreary to find out you’re married to someone with bouts of exhaustion and depression interspersed with manic behavior. It feels like a bait-and-switch. How are you ever going
If you miss snuggling on the couch, dreaming about your future together, and spontaneous dance moves in the hallway, it’s disappointing when that goes missing. It’s lonely and sad. Without
It’s annoying when you’re trying to have a normal conversation and he either clams up and gets cold or raises his voice or starts arguing with you. You just want
Finding out your guy doesn’t love you back feels so rejecting. It hurts like crazy and crushes your self-esteem. It feels like you’ve been let down in the worst way
I remember what lack of intimacy was like in my marriage—terrible. It made me feel like what’s the point of even being married?! Every interaction was a painful reminder that
First, a disclaimer: A coach recently shared with me that she decided to become a coach, even though she didn’t love her husband and believed she never would, because she