Reminder: The Connecting to Us Tele-seminar on March 19th

I will be co-leading the Connecting to Us Tele-seminar with Joanie Yanusas, starting on March 19th. Joanie is a Certified Relationship Coach who offers simple, partnership strategies for men and women to improve their communication and intimacy. Here is the program information: Intention: This tele-seminar is designed for people who are married or in a […]

Being “All in” Your Marriage

Eli J. Finkel, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University, wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times that was published on Valentine’s Day. He was looking at the state of marriage today. As a result of his extensive research, he found that, if you look at marital satisfaction and divorce rate statistics, the […]

Announcing the Connecting to Us Tele-seminar

I am happy to be announcing the Connecting to Us Tele-seminar that I will be co-leading with Joanie Yanusas, starting on March 19th. I have included program information below. Often we take our most precious asset, our relationship with our partner or spouse, for granted. In our hectic and busy lives it’s easy to forget […]

Featured Couple: Frolicking in the Sun

It has been so cold this winter!  I saw these in my closet this morning and they instantly became the featured couple in the spotlight today!  

Featured Couple: Flirting

The Empty Nest – What’s Next?

If your grown kids are leaving home, going off to college, getting married or starting a new job, there is good news. Many couples at this stage are spending more quality time together. Marital satisfaction increases as the quality of your interactions and conversations improve with each other. The empty nest phase of your life […]

Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving is just around the corner. I am looking forward to being together with family and eating bountifully. As usual, this holiday comes at a very busy time of the year for Martha and me and reminds me just how seldom I give thanks for anything, let alone the wonderful life we have. Martha, I […]

The Power of Conversation

Oscar Wilde wrote, “Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis…” Over a lifetime, a married couple expresses all kinds of feelings, viewpoints, opinions, judgments, and ideas in conversation with each other. Their conversations can, at times, be creative, productive, and affirming […]

By the Year 2017…

In the summer of 2005, Martha and I were living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with two of our three children, and starting to think about coming back home to the United States. Martha’s four-year expatriate contract with an international bank would be coming to an end in a year’s time, our eldest daughter was getting […]

Conversations for Partnership

Over the past year, I’ve been writing a book on partnership in marriage. The focus of my book is the power of conversation in marriage and how couples, by having important conversations, can create a fulfilling and enduring partnership over a lifetime. Here’s an excerpt from the first draft: “It is the nature of a […]