Do people get defensive when you give them negative feedback?

Here are 4 tips on how to position negative feedback so the person listening can really hear it!

When you are giving negative feedback, do you own your part first?

If you want the person to whom you are complaining to care about your experience…

Yep, we've been practicing our drills and improving our speaking and listening skills. There are 3 important takeaways we've gathered from this work.

What we think are going to be the predictors of success in relationships simply are not!

And now there is scientific proof…

In this podcast, you’ll get the details about putting the “fun” in marriage fundamentals, using sex dates (ooh la la) as an example, and the magic of lube and candles, and finally, an explanation of why if I were a fictional character, I'd be a fairy godmother.

Has anyone ever accused you of:

• being a bad listener

• being “checked out”

• interrupting

• not really getting them

• losing focus while they are speaking…

In a recent survey we discovered what couples fight about most.

Communication topped the list with complaints like…

Vacations are something many of us eagerly look forward to, but they can bring a great deal of stress and disappointment. This summer I want you to nerd out in your planning, like I do, to ensure you get what you want and everyone else is happy too!

I am writing to people with fathers or without fathers.

Imagine the father you wish you’d had. What’s he like? What traits does he have? How does he talk to you, think about you, behold you?…

Quick, without thinking hard, name the top three fights you always have with your partner.

My husband and I fight about money. I am more nervous and controlling, he is more trusting and generous. We fight when we’re hosting guests. Again, he thinks everything will turn out fine. I think he’s checked out, and I think worrying and controlling get the job done. Lastly, if I think we’re having sex, I’ll start a fight...

In a few years, we are going to look back at our relationship with phones, and consider it barbaric. We are in denial about this. We make excuses constantly. To be very blunt, essentially, the phone is evil and it does evil things to you. And you, like a lemming, comply.

Popcorning: Interrupting your partner (popping in) to get attention on whatever you want to discuss. Distinguishing feature: it could happen at any time!

Couples have been complaining about “popcorning'' for years but it got WAY worse in the pandemic when we were all living on top of each other.

It’s easy to think that “your type” is some elusive thing, but it’s not: IT’S A SACRED THING!

And I want you to reclaim it!

Once you start using this incredibly useful dating tool, the 3H chart, you can say goodbye to heartbreak.

What, you may be asking, are the 3H’s?

A lot of you picked for the wrong reasons. Maybe the person satisfied one, or two, but not all three, and you thought you couldn’t have it all. But maybe you still can–with a little bit of work!

It’s scary to rip off a bandaid. That's why you just have to commit and do it all at once. It stings for a few seconds, and then it’s over –the wound can breathe, and do its last steps of healing!

Giving your partner feedback about something that is not working is a lot like that.

Have you ever asked yourself if you have integrity when it comes to love?

Most people don’t think of integrity the way the Handel Group lays it out. The Handel Method™ teaches that there are 3 levels or forms of integrity…

Sometimes your inability to get over someone reaches the level of an addiction, which means you feel like you have no control over what your head is busy thinking about.

How do you know you’re addicted?

Not everyone can afford private coaching, but everyone deserves somebody to help them debunk their favorite excuses about why relationships don’t work.

Allow me to debunk the most popular 15 excuses I hear, by category….

I have never worked with a couple that didn’t need to talk more about sex. So let me get the ball rolling!