What if Mr. Right-for-You really is out there looking for you? Are you willing to commit to being in a relationship?
We say we are, but are we really? Not wanting to be lonely, or wanting a date for Saturday night isn’t enough to keep a
relationship together.
It’s your decision to share your life with someone [...]
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” – Anonymous
How do you know if your husband or boyfriend has what it takes to step up to the plate and be a full partner for you? You don’t. Key #1 is about deciding, right now, [...]
“I felt it shelter to speak to you.” – Emily Dickinson.
Much has been made of men’s so-called “Fear of Intimacy” issues. I, for one, don’t believe that “Fear of Intimacy” has ever stopped a man from committing himself to a woman he really wants. The nature of a man is to Go for it – [...]
Men don’t leave. They do the best they can to stay with the woman they’ve chosen, and only leave when they can’t get what they need.
So what do men need?
They need what women need: love, companionship, all the good stuff you dream of in a relationship. With one difference: Men respond to a woman [...]
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
– Ingrid Bergman
How did we get where we are?
Can you remember what it was like the moment you laid eyes on your husband or boyfriend, or last romantic partner?
Were you instantly attracted? Was he?
“Into the woods, and who can tell what’s waiting on the journey?
Into the woods and through the fear you have to take the journey…
Into the woods, each time you go, there’s more to learn of what you know…”
– Stephen Sondheim.
Is it really the wayward leaf that’s so upsetting? Or the idea that we are in [...]
There is power in choice. By not believing we have a choice in any situation we find ourselves in, we’re able to be
confused, feel dread, step in and out of commitments, get angry, disappointed, and create drama and conflict enough to distract us from the fact that we are afraid to choose.
Choice is completely different [...]
If everything always turned out the way we expected, if every turn in the road led to where we thought it would, life
would be pretty dismal. Not only would we know about the good stuff, we’d know about the bad stuff. If we knew
everything in advance, there’d be no anticipation. Fear about the uncertainty of [...]
Trusting your boundaries means you believe in your ability to take care of yourself, to treat yourself well regardless
of how you’re feeling about yourself, and to insist that you be treated well, no matter what your man or the conflicting
voices in your head may be saying to you.
Following your feelings means you focus on [...]
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Jalalad-din Rumi
As we begin working together through the 5 Keys to a Great Relationship, you’ll begin to see a pattern. You’ll see that I’ll be asking [...]