by Nancy | Jul 11, 2020 | Commitment, Communication Skills, Conflict, Respectful Behaviors, Uncategorized
If you’ve been following me for very long, you know I love to garden. I have a few house plants that have thrived for more than 20 years. My rose bushes are flourishing. My sunflower plants are about twelve feet tall. My yard has been called “an oasis,” or, “a...
by Nancy | Apr 5, 2019 | Appreciation, Communication Skills, Conflict, Encouragement, Problem Solving, Soul Mates
Is your life looking like the blueprints you had in your mind ten or twenty years ago? Is your marriage living up to the dreams you had for it? Or are you suffering with a marriage or relationship that isn’t matching your plans? “When life doesn’t match your...
by Nancy | Jan 13, 2019 | Commitment, Communication Skills, Conflict, Encouragement, Habit Change, Problem Solving
Recently a respected friend suggested I read Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck, Ph.D. I ordered it. It came. When I thumbed through it and discovered many pages of small print, I set it aside. “Not now. Maybe later.” Yesterday I opened it to...
by Nancy | Oct 9, 2018 | Communication Skills, Conflict, Problem Solving
This is the one that triggers instant anger, simmering resentfulness, and eventually feelings of hopelessness about the quality of your relationship. On the surface each of you wants the issue resolved YOUR way…the BEST way! Right? When I tell my couples that...
by Nancy | Sep 20, 2018 | Communication Skills, Conflict, Problem Solving
Who in the world ever suggests that? Who would want that? Fights are exhausting. It takes time to recover your balance. It feeds emotional separation. It rarely results in a lasting solution. Yet how often are you fighting with your beloved? Or, on the other...
by Nancy | Sep 4, 2018 | Communication Skills, Conflict, Habit Change, Problem Solving, Soul Mates
For a few agonizing moments, that option was on the table for my late husband Jim and me. It felt like a bottomless chasm had opened up in front of us…one that if we didn’t find a way over, would swallow us and our family whole. The fighting was endless. The pain...
