Why Opening to Vulnerability Improves Relationship
When we step back and take a deeper look at what we are seeking in intimate partnership, many of us find a desire for acceptance, support, and connection.
What are you *really* communicating during sex?
To get a better sense of the meaning sex has in your relationship, you have to expand your lens of curiosity wider than the sex act itself.
Why Fighting Over Who’s Right Is the Wrong Approach
Connection happens when you're both able to receive what the other is actually saying in the present moment. Read Donna Molettiere's Couples Center blog post.
How to Cultivate the Right Growing Conditions for Your Partner’s Acceptance
Tips on how you can help a partner become more accepting. It can be tempting to think that your partner should accept you without any help.
Is Your Relationship Too Good to Leave, and Also Too Bad to Stay? How to Work with Ambivalence
Are you or your partner grappling with conflicting emotions? Ambivalence may be to blame. Learn about relationship ambivalence and how to work through it.
How an “Abundance Mindset” Can Bring You Closer
The abundance mindset is an invitation to give even more to one another. By doing so, we create a new spaciousness for our relationship to flourish.
The Secret Ingredient to Add Spice to Your Relationship
As a couples therapist, I encourage you to dance together. You might feel uncomfortable taking this leap, but there are many safe ways to start the process.
How to Accept Your Partner (Without Giving Up Your Power)
If you find that your partner keeps repeating the same thing to you, it could be an indication they don’t feel heard and accepted. Read this article.
How Body Language Affects Your Love Life (video)
Though many couples think that what they say is the most important thing for their partner, Gal Szekely discusses why the delivery of what you’re saying is more important than the verbal message itself.
How to Make Your Love Last (video)
Whether you’ve been married for thirty years or three months, for many people there comes a time when their marriage is not as blissful as when it started.
How to Love, Part 3: “Turning Toward” as Part of the Relationship Cycle
In my previous articles, we began exploring the essential step in the dance of love: “turning toward” (i.e., turning your attention to what your partner is experiencing). Now I invite you to consider the cycle, the movement between two partners that comprises turning toward each other.
Relationship as a Sacred Path
Living from love is the basis for many spiritual traditions. Relationships can serve as a spiritual practice and a vehicle for living more consciously, with more awareness of our actions (and how they affect others).
