It’s not what we say, but how we say it, right? Well, yes, but it’s also when we say it that can make a difference. In my coaching work with couples, I have developed a communication strategy that can actually help to resolve the majority of issues or problems that couples face. Many times, arguments occur and we hear, “You didn’t tell me that,” or, “You don’t listen to me,” both of which are essentially saying the same thing: you or your partner doesn’t feel heard. As humans

I don’t want to wake up one day feeling my back stiffen and my body creak with the pains of age and wonder how I’d gotten it all wrong. I don’t want to look over beside me and see the face of someone I’m only half in love with—or worse, no one at all—just because I was afraid of that great love. I don’t want to rise from bed and meander around my empty colonial wondering when it was exactly that I died inside. And perhaps not everyone feels their unlived life as a virus in th

And yes, I'm a romantic at heart. At first glance perhaps this could be about not wanting to ever get married, or maybe it’s because the love that is felt isn’t the marrying kind. But in reality, neither of these supposed truths are accurate. I never thought that I would utter these words; after all, I am a romantic at heart and that means that a big part of me thinks that love is simply all there is. But I think I’m learning that love can masquerade as many things, so it’s n