Sex & Relationships
Marriage After Baby Arrives
People warned you about the changes that are happening. They even snickered and made jokes about your late-night dates and weekend excursions coming to a dead halt once the baby arrived. But undeniably so, your relationship with y...
A Twist on the Modern Family: Co-Parenting Partnerships
Today's singles have an array of choices in becoming parents. You can look into adoption, surrogacy, donor sperm or eggs, and now co-parenting partnerships. What are Co-Parenting Partnerships? We've seen a few Hollywood versions...
12 Ways to Add Spice to Your Relationship After Baby
Isn't it ironic that the very activity that resulted in baby becomes rare once baby arrives? But you don't have to resign to a monastic lifestyle just because you're parents now. Before baby, you were a couple and it's time to fi...
Summer Date Night Ideas for Mom and Dad
Sometimes it's easy to forget before you were three or more, a family, you were a couple! That relationship needs tending and care to stay strong and one way to do that is to invest time in special moments that build bonding mem...
Date Night Ideas for Parents
For the last nine months you two were focused on the big event; baby's arrival. However, you were focusing together. Now that baby is here, together might seem a relative term. With nighttime feedings, endless diapering and fussy ...
Relationship Truths
There are many lessons and concepts my clients and I have learned during my coaching career. I have compiled a useful list of important and valuable relationship truths. If you apply any one of these truths, you are certain to se...
Conflict Resolution
Conflict by nature is difficult. And yet conflict is a normal, natural aspect of any relationship. In fact, conflict handled well is healthy and can improve, even add to a relationship, leaving both of you feeling heard and unde...
Live With Love
Our children mean everything to us. We want the very best the world has to offer for them. Our job is to nurture their minds and bodies, to guide their souls. This is the job of every parent! This was the job of your parents! How...
Minimize The Waves Of Divorce
Divorce drops into our private pond and creates waves that last beyond our lifetime. We must make ripples instead. Divorce is never envisioned when we give birth to our children. They were conceived in love. We had full intention...
Why Romance Dies
Are you in a relationship where the flames of romance are starting to go out? Or are you single and have a hard time believing romance can last longer than a few months into a relationship? Romance is how most relationships begin...
Bringing Romance Back
Romance dies, that's a fact, right? When you find the love of your life, you'll both settle into a daily routine of financial, household, and child responsibilities, forgetting you are a couple, right? Romance will only last thr...
Silence: Is It Abuse?
Some time ago the University of Washington conducted an experiment into family relationships. They advertised and received permission from families to install recording devices in volunteers' homes. True, they realized that the p...
Cooperation vs. Competition
Who of us involved in a long term relationship hasn't fallen into the trap of obsessing over those little things which our partners do (or don't do)? We have to continually remind ourselves that marriage and other long term rela...
Top 10 Reasons to Date Your Spouse
The hecticness of work, community service projects, church activities and family often relegates a marriage relationship to the bottom of the list. At times, it is necessary to give attention to others. It is also important to ke...
Families That Play Together, Stay Together
Sharing common experiences is one way of helping to keep families close. With our busy lives pulling us in so many directions and our children growing up so quickly, finding new ways to connect to our partners and our children is...
New Years Resolutions
Untitled DocumentNew Years ResolutionsBy T.W. Winslow With the new year come thoughts of new beginnings. Many of us ponder our lives and ourselves and resolve to making change. We make our lists - lose ten pounds, find a better j...
Squashing the Squabbles
We've all heard the theory that most marital problems start with money problems. But how does one define money problems? They could stem from any of the following: A couple who can't talk about the family budget without arguing Tw...
1000 Marbles
The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it's the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Either way, the first few hours of a Satur...
Reach Out and Touch Somebody
The Internet is a wonderful thing. In the blink of an eye, information can shoot from Cincinnati to Bombay. Consequently, the way we communicate with each other has changed.A recent news story attested that e-mail is quickly beco...
Towards Compassion: Understanding the Pressures on Your Husband
We hear a lot about the supermom syndrome, but rarely about our superdads. We place higher expectations on fathers in today's society than ever before. Unlike previous generations, dads today are expected to take a proactive role ...
Having a Good Laugh...Does humor belong in a marriage?
Definitely, Of course, Sure, Yes, CertainlyAside from releasing endorphins in the brain that are energizing and good for us, laughter has other advantages in a relationship. It is a natural part of any relationship. It reduces the...
Making Time for Romance
Connecting with your partner emotionally and physically is a soothing balm for our frazzled lives. A foot massage and a sympathetic ear give us the chance to recharge our selves and our love lives. But after a long day of puttin...
Thriving in Your Relationship in the Midst of a Crisis
How well a couple weathers a crisis is usually a good indicator of whether or not they will survive and thrive, survive and live in blahs for quite some time, or not survive, winding up as another statistic in the Divorce Court. ...
10 Habits of A Loving Couple
Romance is a way to express your love, the icing on the cake... but don't wait for special occasions to express your love. Make sure that you nurture your loving relationship by practicing these basic habits in your day-to-day lif...
The Babysitter
It came to my attention recently that I really needed some time to myself and also some “married” time with my husband. What then do I do with my family and friends miles away? The dreaded babysitter! Hiring a babysitter for the...
Violence, Psychological Abuse and the Woman as Victim
Violence is any act that causes injury or harm that is done to intimidate, threaten and demean a person. In the context of abuse, it is wise to remember that it can happen in various forms and can happen anywhere – including the h...
Subjecting children to domestic violence
Right now, a woman is being beaten black and blue and would not have a clue about what to do. Such domestic violence happens every 12 seconds to an estimated one out of four women. Much to other people’s puzzlement, the abuse is...