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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
Control and intimacy are opposites. You can’t have intimacy when you’re trying to control the person you’re with, and if you want to be in control, the intimacy will vanish.
Getting cheated on is ridiculously painful. It’s a betrayal that hurts like crazy and seems like it could be impossible to recover from–personally, and as a couple. I mean, how
You were born to be cherished by a man. At one time, you took that for granted. You probably started fantasizing about it when you were little, dreaming about the
By the time I was trying to find marriage counselors, things were pretty bad at our house. I wasn’t looking for suggestions on how to improve a good thing; I
When I was at the lowest point in my marriage–feeling completely dejected and lonely because my husband was not affectionate–I kept reading advice from experts who insisted that the solution
Being married to Eeyore is excruciating. You’ve got to wonder why your guy doesn’t just look on the bright side. But that’s not how depression works. It makes sense that