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 …
Welcome to any newcomers to this blog. I’m sorry it has been a loooong time since my last post. I’m here now and doing well, having moved to sunny Hythe in Kent! Since the focus of my work and these newsletters are all about relationships, I want to share with you what’s been happening in …
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 …