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What’s the Plan for Your Marriage?
"If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail." Benjamin Franklin If you’re like a lot of people, you probably spent a lot of time and gave a lot of thought to planning your wedding. I know I did. But how much time and thought did you give to your actual marriage? I...
Your Habits Make (or Break) Your Marriage
"Habit is everything, even in love." Luc de Clapiers A habit is defined as a usual way of behaving: something that a person does often in a regular and repeated way. And you and your wife have developed habits in your marriage. The big question? Are they helping or...
Has Your Marriage Become a Competition?
"Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people." David Sarnoff Many years ago, my client Brian came into my office and flung himself on my couch. Before I could open my mouth, he said, “If I do what my wife wants, she wins.” In that moment, he...
Do You Need to Bone Up on Your Relational Skills?
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." Teddy Roosevelt Every so often I have a week where there seems to be a theme with everyone I talk to. This week it seems to be the idea of being relational. An...
What It Means to Walk Love’s Path
"To choose love and jump in not knowing, with a lot of unknowns, is a brave act." Mara Brock Akil It’s deja-vu all over again. At least according to the Hall of Fame catcher and well-spoken Yogi Berra. I’ve been spending my anniversary week in California with my...
Why Good Communication is the Key to Physical Intimacy
"When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand." Karl Menninger Two of the most common goals my clients have is to improve their communication and have better, more and deeper intimacy with their wives. What they, and most men, don’t realize how...
Are Men’s Relationship Needs Really Simple?
“Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.” ~ Deepak Chopra I remember back in the late 80s listening to a Tim Allen stand up routine where he said men have three simple needs: the need for sex, the need for...
The #1 Reason You’re Not Getting the Physical Intimacy You Want (and How to Fix It)
"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place." Billy Crystal One of the lessons I had drilled into me early on in my training was to meet people where they are. This is great advice when you are trying to increase the level of intimacy in your marriage. If...
Love Sometimes Means Sitting in the Rain
"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." Elizabeth Barrett Browning As I write this, I’m sitting in a car driving through the pouring rain. On my way to an outdoor music festival for the weekend. The weather outlook isn’t great....
Is Balance Even Possible in Your Marriage?
"True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community." Padmasree Warrior I was talking to a friend yesterday (see the video above) about what he sees as the biggest challenge in his marriage. It wasn’t money. It wasn’t the amount or quality of...
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