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The Gamble of Marriage
What if I’m Not Attracted to Him Anymore?
What Happens When We Suppress Our Emotions
What Does the Super Bowl Have to Do With Your Marriage?
Why Can’t I Just Be Happy?
2021: Will This Be the Year You Finally Decide?
The Quest to Better Understand Men
Are you overtaking responsibility for someone else’s feelings?
Have I Outgrown My Husband?
Your Kids Aren’t Part of Your Marriage
When do you know the marriage is over?
One Simple Way to Get Out of Roommate Status
Controlling For 30 Years…Until Now.
Inspiring Isn’t Always Effective
What Constitutes a Successful Marriage?
My Marriage is Over
Looking For Peace When a Marriage is Crumbling
My Affair Made Me Feel Alive…or Maybe It was Something Else
Why Can’t I Love My Husband Again?
What Have You Given Up on in Your Marriage?
I’m Stuck. I Can’t Leave.
Why Divorce Should ALWAYS Be an Option
Why Is Fixing the Relationship My Responsibility?
What’s the Worst That Will Happen?
A Mic Drop Marriage Moment
Why We Don’t Do What We Should Be Doing
Waiting for Change
Why is Marriage So Hard? – Part Three
Why Is Marriage So Hard? – Part Two
Why is Marriage So Hard? – Part One
When a Marriage is Tested
When We’re Not Threatened, We’re Not Defensive
I’m Stuck. Is That True?
It’s Going to Get Rough 🌩️
Three Steps to Getting Your Needs Met in Your Marriage
A Perfect Storm: Increased Stress and More Time Together
One Reason for Some Affairs: Disconnection from Self
Enough is Enough. (Rant Warning)
Surviving Valentine’s Day when Your Marriage is Struggling
Do We Need a Clean Slate to Move Forward?
I Have to Share This Lesson in Perspective with You
Say “Thank You”
Obligation and Marriage
Sounding the Alarm Bells on Gaslighting
Unconditional Love is Not Unconditional Consequences
Begin Again
My Marriage is a Mess. Why Look for Gratitude?
Alpha Men and Beta Men. Alpha Women and Beta Women.
Why Most Affairs Don’t Live Happily Ever After
Give Up the Need to Know…For Now.
When Loving You is Betraying Myself
But Aren’t We Supposed to Make Each Other Happy?
All Growth and Healing Happens in Community
Choosing Between Two Men
I Hope I’m Never Someone’s Contingency Plan
Women Leave Mentally Before They Leave Physically
The Intensity of Pain
We Have High Expectations for Our Marriages
His Wife Is Changing…and He Doesn’t Like It
A Marriage Tool for Having Difficult Conversations
Children and Divorce: What if Your Kids Could Thrive?
Is It Possible to Heal a Marriage After an Affair? Part 3
Is it Possible to Heal a Marriage After an Affair? Part 2
Is It Possible to Heal a Marriage After an Affair? Part 1.
Is Your Marriage Surviving on Leftovers?
But My Situation Is Different…
Ten Tips to Divorce Differently
Difficult Conversations Will Be Uncomfortable
Can One Person Make a Difference?
Surviving Infidelity
Can I Trust Him?
Will My Husband Ever Change?
Understanding Emotional Infidelity
Verbally Abusive Relationship
How Do You Know When Your Marriage is Over?
Our Arguments Never Get Resolved
The Five Steps to Having Difficult Conversations
She was Putting Her Kids in the Middle
My Musings on Marriage
All Love Matters…Even When It Ends
The Shame of Staying
Was Your Marriage Put on a Shelf?
Are You Growing Closer Together or Drifting Further Apart?
Resentments of an Alpha Female
If Your Husband is Controlling, Here’s Why.
Loving Unconditionally is the Hardest Work We’ll Ever Do
Why We Avoid Setting Boundaries
The Kiss of Death for Your Marriage: The Need to be Right
Why People in Healthcare Struggle in Their Marriages
Some of the Most Successful People You Know Have Relationship Struggles
Why Bother Trying?
Your Relationship Prep for the New Year
Sharing Some Gifts with You
Someone Has to Take the Lead
The Difference between Loving Someone & Using Them…
What Will Happen If I Let It Go?
The Danger of Our Expectations. A Very Personal Story.
The Mature Marriage: Five Signs Your Marriage is in Trouble
What if No One has to be Wrong?
Judgement Doesn’t Help
Challenging the Inevitable Truth
Support Groups Seem Like a Perfectly Logical Idea…
Begging for Affection
The Tornado of the Type A Woman
The Guardian of His Solitude
I Don’t Miss Him Because…
Protecting Your Heart
How Did We Go from Hope to Hate?
I Didn’t Go Looking for an Affair
When We Betray Ourselves
The Power in Making a Decision
When You Take Responsibility, You Have the Ability to Respond
The Four Stages of Marriage
Some Practical Relationship Advice
Let’s Talk Love & Bondage…
Two Years in Therapy and $6500 Later…
Divorce and Our Emotions
Comfortably Unhappy
How are You Showing Up as a Woman?
Given What’s Happening, Should Marriage Still Legally be Allowed?
It’s Not Magic …But It Is Magical
A Confused Mind Does Nothing
If I Lean Back, Will He Lean In?
Maybe Communication Isn’t the Only Answer to Creating Intimacy
What if I Don’t Want to Save My Marriage?
How Important is the Health of Your Marriage?
Would You Stay if Your Husband Cheated? Three Questions to Help You Decide if You Should Stay or Go.
Will My Marriage Last?
I’m Not the Problem
This is What to Do with Drama and Struggle
There is No Such Thing as Destiny
When We Withhold Love
The Mature Marriage: Five Signs of a Marriage in Trouble
Why We Choose to Cheat Instead of Leave a Bad Marriage
Indecision Sucks
Why I Love It When My Coaching Clients Stop Working with Me
We Belong to Each Other
Anything We Are Experiencing, We Are Choosing.
He Doesn’t Get It
The One Who Broke My Heart
Having It All Together is Highly Overrated
50 Ways We Leave Our Lovers
Are You Listening? Are You Listening to Yourself?
What has been Your Biggest Mistake?
I’ve Read Everything & Nothing’s Changed
Neither Wanted to Give In… So They Both Gave Up
Why is Fifty Shades of Grey so Appealing to Mature Women?
You Have Every Right to Complain…It Just Won’t Serve You
Can I Afford to Leave My Husband?
What’s Important to You?
Connection and Intimacy: Can It be Created?
Have I Outgrown My Relationship?
Choosing Peace is a Gift to Yourself
How We Communicate is a Result of How We Feel
Communication and Relationships: This Blew My Mind
What’s Creating the Arguing or the Distance in Relationships?
Five Reasons Why So Many People File for Divorce in January and When is the Best Time to Divorce?
Is There Still Hope?
You’re on the Same Team
Want More Intimacy? Create Some Separation.
To Love takes Courage
Who Will Fix the Relationship?
There are Two Sides to Every Story…and they’re both right.
What It’s Like When We Love Someone but are No Longer in Love.
How to Make a Marriage Thrive
The Marriage We Have is a Result of Our Thoughts
The Danger of a Marriage on Auto-Pilot
Want to Heal Your Relationship? Find Forgiveness.
Reconnect & Learn Something New about Your Partner
A Marriage Counseling Drawback
We Do What We Want to Do. Period.
My First 100 Clients…and the Ripple Effect.
Accepting an Apology You Never Receive
The Missing Piece in Your Decision to Leave Your Marriage
If I Stay Right Here, Nothing Bad Will Happen
Seeking Answers for My Marriage…
Seek This Before Deciding to Leave Your Marriage
The Secret Wellness Tool that Will Help You Get Through Divorce
Are the Empty Nest Blues Placing Your Marriage at Risk?
Conventional Wisdom Doesn’t Work in Our Relationships
Why Do So Many Second and Third Marriages End?
Does He Have Something to Hide
The 10 Minute Marriage Fix
Your Relationship Scorecard
Are You the Weakest Link in Your Relationship?
What a Shame.
Other People Don’t Belong in Your Marriage
I Wish He Would
Marriage Vows and Divorce: Is Till Death Do Us Part Still Relevant?
Your Hurt. Your Pain. Your Anger.
Enough Distracting from Your Disconnected Marriage. Plus an Invitation for You.
Thirty Phrases that can Save a Troubled Marriage
How Did My Marriage Get So Bad?
Owning My Part: How I Found Success in the Failure of My Marriage
How to Have a Drama-Free Breakup
The Hidden Toll of an Unhealthy Marriage
I WANT TO GIVE YOU ALL 5 OF MY BOOKS FOR FREE.
Why Your Relationships (Even the Bad Ones) Lead to Spiritual Growth
How to Admit Your Role in a Failed Relationship (without Blaming Yourself)
What to Do when Your Relationship with a Narcissist (Inevitably) Falls Apart
When Temporary Separation from Your Partner is a Good Thing
I Stayed in the Wrong Marriage for 11 Years
What I Know about Love from Being in the Wrong Marriage
Four Reasons Why I Make No Apologies for My Price
Stop Engaging in “The Crazy.”
How Is This Possible In Coaching?
Too Little. Too Late.
90% of You Will Not Attempt to Solve the Problem and More than 50% of You will Divorce.
Is He on Good Behavior or Is This Lasting Change?
What if Your Relationship is Complete?
How Do I Tell My Husband I’m Unhappy?
You Have 3 Options When Your Marriage is Falling Apart
You’ve Changed…
Is This the Kind of Marriage You Hope Your Daughter has One Day?
10 Quotes for Understanding Why Some Marriages Struggle
It’s Not (Only) About the Affair
The Problem with Staying for the Kids
The Disconnected Marriage
Love Him, but Not in Love with Him
Just Because He Lied or Cheated Doesn’t Make Him a Narcissist
An Abandoned Home. A Disconnected Marriage.
Compare and Despair
The Pain in Relationships is Circular
When Your Ex is Ruining Your Life
Your Husband Left. It Didn’t Happen Overnight.
Why is Connecting with My Husband so Difficult?
My Life Needed to be Blown-Up
5 Steps to Not Repeating Your Relationship Mistakes
How Life Coaches are Like Personal Trainers.
What are You Allowing in Your Relationship?
The Most Important Thing a Man Wants
What I Learned from Jim Masters & How It Relates to Our Relationships
The Single Biggest Relationship Mistake that We ALL Make
My Affair is Over. Now What?
I’ve Tried Everything and Nothing is Working
We’re Missing an Intimate Connection. Here’s Why…
There are No Guarantees in Love
Can I Have the Life I Want with My Husband?
My Biggest Beef with the Self-Help Industry
Three Reasons Why Asking Your Spouse to Go to Marriage Counseling with You Rarely Works
Your Lawyer Isn’t Your Relationship Coach
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Does It Take Two People to Fix a Marriage?
The Loveless Marriage
How to Heal After an Affair
I Have No Reason to Leave
I Can’t Leave My Marriage and I Can’t Stop My Affair
The Opposite of Love Isn’t Hate. It’s Indifference.
There is No Relationships Class. No One Teaches Us How to Do This
We Have Grown Apart. Here’s What to Do…
A Little Distraction Goes a Long Way
I’m so Selfish
Why Can’t He Stop Cheating? And Why Can’t I Walk Away? Here are the Options.
Have Someone in Your Family that’s Hard to Love? Try This.
January is Considered Divorce Month for a Reason
His Affair. Her Heartbreak. Rinse and Repeat.
What I’m Learning from Coaching Men
The Facebook Affair
The Paradox of Loneliness
I Should Be Grateful
Is My Marriage in Trouble?
If You Leave Your Marriage, You Take Yourself with You
A Cry for Help: When Your Marriage is in Trouble, the Distance Grows Wider and You get Rebellious
On Some Level, We Knew the Truth
The Magic Pill for My Marriage
Can a Troubled Marriage be Saved?
Will He Ever Change?
The REAL Story about My First Marriage and Why It Ended
The Safe Marriage
The Single Worst Piece of Advice I’ve Ever Heard from a Therapist
Soften Up, Baby
The Good in Goodbye
What if There’s Never Any Closure?
The Battle between the Heart and Mind
What if I’m Alone Forever?
Heal from a Relationship with a Narcissist & Never Allow that into Your Heart Again
Hitting Rock Bottom in Your Relationship.
Why Isn’t This Enough?
I Love Him, but I’m Not in Love with Him
If I’m so Smart, Why Can’t I Fix My Marriage?
When the Arguing Ends and You’re Left with a Grudging Tolerance
Your Sexless Marriage
My Single Biggest Piece of Advice for Men
Where does Marriage Counseling Fail Us?
What if Cheating Isn’t Wrong?
Relationships Drift. Marriages End. Hearts Break Open.
Life Outside Your Safe Zone
Reconciling Divorce and Marriage Vows
It’s Easier to Walk Away from Marriage in Anger and Hurt
Are You Glad You Made the Decision to Leave Your Marriage?
You Can Trust Yourself Again
Seeing through the Eyes of Love
Emotional Abuse is Still Abuse
Valentine’s Day when Your Marriage is a Mess
The Inevitability of Change in Relationships
That’s His Story
Why Can’t I Get Over Him? Here’s 3 Reasons.
Why We Stay – Even When It Hurts
Being Intentional about the Energy You Allow
Why I’m Not a Fan of Affirmations
What’s Whispering to You Right Now?
The Support of Girlfriends
Can We Save this Marriage?
Staying Stuck in the Questions
Love is My Religion
Fear and Calm can Co-Exist
Permission to Evolve
The Inseparability of Truth and Love
Someday I Will
Limitless
Maybe Am I in the Wrong Marriage is the Wrong Question.
The Three “F” Words in Your Relationship
Love is Durable. Trust is Fragile. Respect is Crucial.
Stuck in Indecision
A Whole New Way to Think About Self-Love
Nothing to Lose and Only Love to Gain
No Mud. No Lotus.
If It Feels Good, Do It.
How We Love
Soulful Spirituality & Your Relationships
Do You Want Love or Do You Just Want to Want It?
Here’s the Truth: It’s Time to Ask a Better Question
Fear or Love: Part 2
Fear or Love: Those are Our Options and We Get to Choose
What’s Your Story? Is it Keeping You Stuck?
Forgive Yourself
The Lesson We Most Need to Learn
Why We Attract People Who Need Saving
The Negative Emotions You Resist will Only Persist
Prepare for Love to Come Flooding In
Cheating and Trusting Your Instincts
How Your Soul Says “Yes!”
Our Happiness: Our Job
Love by July
Making Room for Love
What if You were Already Alone?
The Sacred Difference Between Action & Inspired Action
The Path out of Emotional Abuse is through the Door of Self Love
When the Answer is No
Permission Slips
The Justification for Joy
Together & Alone
Love with Your Eyes Wide Open
The Most Important Step in Finding Love
Everything You Want in Love is Waiting for You
Our Closest Relationships are Our Greatest Spiritual Teachers
Relationship Patterns & Soulful Truth Telling
Your Vision for Finding Love
I Should Be Grateful
The Reason Why He Left
Why I Hate the Label Mid-Life Crisis
Acts of Courage for Your Soul
The Awakening
In Love with Love
Get Comfortable with Getting Uncomfortable
Life Will Never be the Same
3 Ways to Stay Stuck
Breakups Force Us to Choose Between Anger and Peace
How I Lost Myself and Found My Fire
There’s Nothing to Prove
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Breakups are a Gift
Living in the Light
The Breakthrough after a Breakup
3 Things My Husband has Taught Me about Love
It’s the Crazy Crap that Makes Me Laugh and Love Them Even More
5 Powerful Lessons about Healing a Broken Heart
Our Truth Leads Us to Freedom
Identifying What You Really Want
The Subtle Difference between Effort and Force
The Gift of Presence
One Simple Way to Let Go of Perfectionism
Releasing Myself from the Prison of Negativity
If I Only Knew Then What I Know Now
We Attract What We Are
My Peace is My Responsibility
What My 13-Year Old Niece Taught This Life Coach about Beauty
Little White Lies
The Certainty of Uncertainty and the Promise of Possibility
Living Courageously
Permission to be Happy
Powerful and Peaceful
Authenticity & an Aspiring Life Coach
Your Spring Will Come
Our Path to Freedom
The Struggle We Don’t Discuss
Three Things I’ve Learned from Telling my Story
Most Recent For Women
The Best Relationships Are Not Without Conflict
The Gamble of Marriage
What if I’m Not Attracted to Him Anymore?
What Happens When We Suppress Our Emotions
What Does the Super Bowl Have to Do With Your Marriage?
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Most Recent For Men
What’s Not Working In Your Marriage?
Working On Your Marriage
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Verbally Abusive Relationship – Are You In One?
Stonewalling
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