What do you think about giving and receiving gifts?
Are you an enthusiastic, appreciative receiver or does getting a gift make you feel uncomfortable? Are you a spirited gift giver picking up small (or large) tokens of your esteem and affection wherever you go for the people you care about? In a small survey I...
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Family Gift Giving for the Holidays
The holidays can be a stressful time of year for many people. Often, you are juggling shopping, traveling, visiting and entertaining. For many of you, the most stressful part of the holidays is family gift giving. Here are some suggestions to ease your stress: 3 Key...
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What Do You Mean You Need Space?
Has your partner ever told you that he or she needs “some space”? All too often men and women are threatened by their partners needing or wanting “space”—an opportunity to enjoy solitude. They somehow feel that if their partners really loved them they wouldn’t want to...
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Love Relationships: 5 Easy Steps to Forever
What do you mean when you refer to a "relationship"? Do you know the differences between a dating relationship, a pre-committed relationship and a committed relationship? The difference has to do with the nature and structure of the relationship. The nature and...
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How to Receive an Apology
For most of us, it is equally difficult and uncomfortable to receive an apology as to offer an apology! Offering and receiving apologies is an art and requires learning a few simple skills and practicing those skills often. Now, take another deep breath and sit...
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How to Offer an Apology
For most of us, offering an apology feels awkward or uncomfortable. For one thing, we don’t have a lot of practice. For another thing, the concept of apologizing is often associated with being "bad" or "wrong." Consider thinking about an apology as a behavior that...
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When to Apologize
If your partner is hurt or offended by something you said or didn’t say, or did or didn’t do, his or her upset is not an indictment of you. It doesn’t mean you are a bad person. It doesn’t even mean you did something bad or wrong. In fact, it may not mean anything at...
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What is an Apology?
Have you ever hurt your partner’s feelings? Or had your feelings hurt? Of course you have. Because, when we are involved and invested in someone’s present and future, hurting someone’s feelings or getting our feelings hurt is inevitable. When we are hurt we react to...
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Simple Romance Rituals to Create Meaningful Connections
…the final in a series of Gardening Tips for Couples. “Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You...
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Honor Your Partner’s Feelings as if They Are Your Own
…another in the series of Gardening Tips for Couples! Feelings are the barometer of your outside existential life. For human beings in personal relationships, your feelings let you know how things are going for you inside yourself. Feelings exist because they do, in...
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