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Appreciation
Saying Yes Opens Endless Creativity—Tossing Turns Yes into Yes, And…
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 31 OF 31 How much of your relating revolves around defending, jockeying for who’s right this time, scorekeeping and…
Quantum Shift Alert–You Can Osmose Love
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 30 OF 31 Here’s one of the most pervasive myths about relationships—it’s just plain constant work and compromise. You…
Harmony Happens When Separate Tones Play Together
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 29 OF 31 If you think that you have to establish a Gregorian chant kind of relationship where you…
To Have a Great Time All the Time, Play with Your Personas
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 28 OF 31 Everybody has personas, roles we still carry. We all learned to wear different roles just as…
To Experience Heaven Right Now, Live in Completion
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 27 OF 31 We savor the joy of giving and receiving more love in more ways every day. We…
All Feelings are Flow
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 26 OF 31 Wherever we travel in the world to share relationship explorations, people seem most interested, confused and…
Creativity Can Replace Complaining
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 25 OF 31 In our book Conscious Loving Ever After we open with a chapter on creativity. If you…
Find Out What Delights Your Mate and Do It
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 24 OF 31 You can be the source of ongoing pleasure and joy when you look for ways to…
Give and Receive the Balm of Being Deeply Listened To
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 23 OF 31 We are resonating tubes that can hum or squeak, expand or recoil in retreat. When we…
Sex Can Keep Getting Better and Better Throughout Life
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 22 OF 31 Really. I know, sounds impossible and deluded. Doesn’t the science say sexual attraction has already peaked,…
Changing One Thing Can Change Everything
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 21 OF 31 Scientists have confirmed something we’ve noticed for years: patterns can be interrupted with one new choice.…
You Can Discover the Whole Cosmos Through Your Partner
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 20 OF 31 Close relationship is your own personal spaceship that can take you to frontiers of consciousness and…
You Need to Tussle–Just Like Other Mammals
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 19 OF 31 We humans like to connect with our weight, to feel the impact of being fully met…
Who Loves Ya, Baby?!
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 18 OF 31 People often in close relationships often look for their partner to fill the love gaps in…
You Can Create Exquisite Variety Without Leaving Your Partner or Having an Affair
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 17 OF 31 The culture has imposed some stereotypical stodginess on committed relationships, especially long-term ones. If you’ve worried…
Wonder Supplies the Rocket-Fuel for Juicy Relating
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 16 OF 31 Wonder is the opposite of blame. Wonder opens all your brain and body intelligence power to…
You Don’t Have to Completely Understand the Issue to Let Go of It
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 15 OF 31 Many people have the same attitude toward relationship issues that they hold about certain vegetables (you…
Respond Or React? In Each Interaction You Grow or Defend
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 14 OF 31 Let’s get right to the acid test for your close relationship, for any relationship really–getting undefended…
Take On Your Partner as an Appreciation Project
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 13 OF 31 If you are like most people, you intend to appreciate, you know how important it is,…
Let Your Mate Be Your Ally, Especially When You’re Stuck
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 12 OF 31 When we decided to end blame and criticism in our relationship (yes, you too can do…
Attention is the Currency of Relationship
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 11 OF 31 Most of us learned that grownups are supposed to be emotional islands, self-sufficient and independent. This…
Your Body Knows—Give Attention to More Than Your Thoughts!
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 10 OF 31 One of our cats, Greta, loves to literally hurl herself at us in the morning to…
Turn Fear into Flow to Give Fresh Fuel to Your Relationships
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 9 OF 31 At the bottom of relationship issues you’ll find one central filter that generates separation—fear. The culture…
You Can Breathe Your Way into Relationship Bliss
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 8 OF 31 Stress often makes us breathe up into the shallows of the chest rather than down into…
Every Aspect of You Wants to Be Loved. By You.
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 7 OF 31 Does this sound familiar? When I lose 10 pounds I’ll be able to find love. When…
Blame And Criticism are the Junk Food of Relationships
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 6 OF 31 Ahh, the crackle of breaking open the bag of crunchy, salty, fatty yummies! Blaming and criticizing—you…
Committing Gets You Into The Game: Recommitting Lets You Create a New Game
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 5 OF 31 Committing still has a pretty formidable rep—many people confuse it with being restricted and controlled. Or…
Saying Something Real Creates Right-Now Intimacy
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 4 OF 31 One of our biggest relationship wows has been learning the power of authenticity. Being honest and…
Appreciating Gives You the Highest ROI of Any Relationship Move
OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 3 OF 31 Appreciating gets a lot of lip service. Yes, we all know that in good relationships, people…