Posts Tagged ‘relationship trouble’
Finding Your Marital North Star
Often times when I work with premarital couples I ask them what characteristics they would like to see in their marriage. I encourage these couples to take time to think about what is important to them in a relationship, write it down and look back on in frequently. I then talked to couples about using…
Read MoreLook For Loving In All The Wrong Places: Rekindling love in your marriage
Your task is not to seek for love, but to seek and find all the barriers that you have built against it. Love is your natural state. Your only problem lies in covering it up with cheap substitutes. Our need to be right, expectations of how we think something should be, judgments we project upon…
Read MoreWorking On Internal Peace to Experience External Peace.
In this entry I will not be telling anything you don’t already know. Think of this entry not as something novel but as a reminder of the obviousness that is all around us. We can witness evidence of the following commentary in our every experience. It is your direct experience that you must listen to,…
Read MoreShould You Accept Your Partner’s Bad Habit?: How accepting your partner benefits you
Many people are afraid that if they fully accept their partner, bad habits and all, that the act of acceptance will leave them open to being taking advantage of or becoming a doormat. They are worried that if they accept a person the way they are that it will mean giving up a part of…
Read MoreAre You in an Unfulfilling Relationship? What to do when you feel like your relationship is one sided.
Many of us feel stuck in relationships that feel one sided. We may feel as if we are doing everything we can possibly think of to make the relationship better, but we just don’t feel as if our partner is trying anymore. Or we may feel ready to give up on our relationship because we…
Read MoreThe Run Away Horse Story: You never know what will come out of any situation
There once was a farmer whose horse ran away. When the farmer’s neighbor found out about the runaway mare he told the farmer it was too bad that his horse ran away. The farmer replied to his neighbor, “You never know”. The next day the farmer’s horse returned followed by a beautiful stallion. The…
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