Hello and Welcome to Encounter No 1 – Sweet Contact Have you got your date booked to do this together? Take about 15-20 minutes for this… or as long as you like! I suggest you read this text together a couple of times to get a sense of it and then use the video to …
I find it rather an exciting concept that each relationship has it’s own unique and special Relational Space, the quality of which is dependent on how both partners look after it. We’ve probably all heard that phrase “Relationships Need Work”. Well, I personally prefer to think of the entity that is my Relational Spacebelonging to both of us …
Do you find that your weekday evenings, as a couple, can almost feel non-existent? Especially if you have young children, it seems very hard to even sit down together for an hour before bedtime. Many couples tell me they feel sad about these evening disconnections and their lack of togetherness. Well, I have this simple …
As I sit in my conservatory in my new home, I see delightful signs of Spring opening all around me. The buds on the trees and shrubs, the nesting activity of my local seagulls, the sky lightening up and giving us more of the warming sunshine we love. I find myself opening too in energy …
An amazing thing happened to me the other day. I was in a deeply upsetting place with a close friend of mine. We had what started out as a discussion about a sensitive personal issue for her, but the discussion soon escalated into a full blown argument. Have you ever had a big argument with …
Hello there … this title is not a typo! LAT means “Living Apart Together”. And before you get a bit concerned about these words, please take a breath and know that I’m NOT suggesting you and your partner live apart! That is definitely not where I’m coming from. However, the complications of living together, as we …
I know, that may seem a strange question and your answer could well be….Waking up with my beloved?? He leaves hours before I come into my day, or we usually wake up under the cat or the dog!! Or as someone said to me earlier today “we are never kidless when we wake up in …
I wonder how you answered that question? We all do it, you know. We pay attention to what isn’t working well and often we focus on what our partner isn’t getting “right”, (or what we consider “right”). We remind them “just to let him/her know” or “to put them straight” or “so they know what it’s like …
Just the other day, at our couples support group, I found myself saying “Well, relationships really are not easy things…hard work in fact.” Bob asked me afterwards why I had made this strong, rather negative statement. Why had I? The truth is he and I have been feeling pretty separate lately, each absorbed in our …
As the sun comes out and we warm up at last, how about warming up your relationship as well? When we are colder and inside the home and with ourselves more, we can get a bit overtaken by aspects of our relationship that don’t work so well or can be challenging. So here is a …