There’s a weekly ritual I suggest any time your relationship feels stale, passionless or fraught with negative tension. It’s a ritual that has saved countless partnerships, bringing marriages back from the brink of destruction. I basically guarantee that it will lead to more intimacy, more laughs, more connection and a renewed respect for one another. But the nature of this …
(Healthy) Entitlement is the Secret Ingredient to Save your Struggling Relationship
When you think of the word “Entitlement”, what comes to mind? It’s probably negative. You might think of it in a pejorative sense, like “that entitled jerk just walked in demanding a free refill on his coffee. We don’t do that here!” But I’m here to tell you that entitlement can be a good thing. And no matter what your …
How Spirituality Undermines Relationships
It’s a very common issue that two people in a relationship don’t have the same spiritual practices, beliefs, and ideologies. I often see couples struggling with the challenges that come with this, and the various expectations we place on ourselves and each other as a result. With this in mind, I want to attempt to offer some context for what …
Coupling as a Team Sport
In a modern day world with infinite possibilities, why did I choose to work with couples? It has a lot to do with…baseball. I’ve been interested in baseball for my entire life. As a young boy I had a great affinity for creating my own All-Star baseball teams. As a seven year old, I would grab the Sports Section and …
Coupling Is A Bitch; You’re Not Alone
You could say that couples are the foundation of our society. When couples are functioning well with one another, everyone around them is more at ease and more optimistic about life in general. But when they’re dysfunctional it can be a horror show. It may even become traumatizing or re-traumatizing for everyone involved. The fact is, most of us are …
Moving from Me to We
A partner, by definition is: “a pair of people engaged together in the same activity”. Yet I was personally avoiding being in an INTERDEPENDENT partnership because I was fearful that it would take away my autonomy. My ‘stuff’: my private time, my agendas, my personal activities, my peace would no longer exist.






