What Are Your Relationship Deal Breakers?

relationship coachingAs a Relationship Coach, one of driving reasons for the work I do is to help couples heal their relationship, rather than see them throw in the towel and walk away from each other.

I am a big believer in perseverance. I feel strongly about making the effort, about fighting for love, and moving away from the disposable thinking that too many people have about their marriage or partnership.

I believe my stand on these things comes from not only being a child from a family of multiple divorces and the chaos that followed, but also from having been divorced myself and then fighting for my next relationship, to get it to the amazing place it is today.

Love can be hard work, and a marriage or long term relationship can be even tougher.

Melding your life with another person’s can be fraught with challenges, and yet it’s what so many of us yearn to do, and go out of our way to make happen.

An important part of my business is Singles Coaching for this very reason. We want love, we want to get coupled up, we want to have that person in our lives who we adore, who adores us, and who we can live happily ever after with.

Except it doesn’t always go that way.

Every day I work with people who feel like the dream has ended. They feel hurt, stuck, frustrated, out of love and ready to walk away. All the love they started out with seems to have faded, life has got in the way, and it’s usually only a last ditch effort that brings them to me, to see if their relationship is worth saving.

Most of the time it is. But there are times when my professional opinion is to move on.

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Loving In Your Partner’s Shoes

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What kind of crazy headline is that?? It might not make sense right now, but let me explain.

Do you sometimes feel as if your partner is purposefully ignoring your requests, or purposefully trying to be difficult and hurtful towards you?

Does it seem like you are constantly in a losing battle to get your needs met, or to figure out how to resolve an ongoing problem between the two of you?

It can be extremely frustrating and, at times, completely destructive to be in a situation like this, when no matter how much you try, you end up back at square one every time.

You go over and over the situation in your head and come to conclusions that seem right based on your experience and you wonder how you can get your partner to see things from your perspective.

But perhaps it’s not your perspective you need to push.

What if I told you, you could get a whole lot further by considering your partner’s perspective instead?

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30 Simple Things To Say To Get More Love

relationship coachingIt is said that actions speak louder than words, and in many cases I agree, but the words we use can hold a lot of power too.

With only words we can build someone up or tear them down. We can bring smiles, or sadness. And simply by opening our mouths and forming a combination of words we can create love, or destroy it.

Our words can have immense power, including the power to bring us more of what we want, and less of what we don’t.

But just as it’s easy to forget to show your partner you love them through your actions, it’s also easy to forget to use the right words to clearly express exactly how you feel about someone, and leave absolutely no doubt about how much you love and appreciate them.

Sadly, as time goes by in many relationships it’s often the default to use words to criticize, blame, judge or nag. Or if none of those are your style, perhaps it’s just that you’ve got so caught up in the day-to-day conversations about the bills, work, the dog, the kids and what’s for dinner, that there’s little space left for words of love.

Life gets busy and it can get in the way if you let it. But the great thing is that the words you can say to your partner to create more love in your relationship don’t take long to say, and don’t have to be carefully crafted poetic odes of love.

There’s no need to start memorizing the prose of Keats or Wordsworth, or try to construct your own over the top, exaggerated and gushy declarations of love. All you have to do is practice giving the small, but incredibly valuable gift of loving words.

It’s that easy, yet so often ignored as a pathway to increased love and intimacy.

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