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Conversations about marriage and relationships with Stephen Frueh, noted speaker and facilitator.
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I am always looking for good news. Not easy when the front pages of the two newspapers I read daily are covered with mostly alarming news. What I've noticed with some of the couples...
A crisis in most cases depends for its severity on your own perception. Some people lose a job and see it as a catastrophe, others might see it as an opportunity. I know a very wealthy...
News item: Thursday, November 13, 2008 CNNLarge companies canceling their Christmas parties. Reason: the tanked economy.I heard this and thought this: Why have Christmas parties anyway?...
I worried all weekend around the fact that my family (of origin) is coming from scattered locations on the East Coast to celebrate my birthday this week. I worried about the unpainted...
This morning I read a short article by a positive thinker person. A good and uplifting piece. But one thing he said caught me. It was this: "you can't change the past. You can only
Walking in the Dark : why modern marriages struggle.What we carry within us – a true image of relationship possibility – has long ago been obscured by the noise of commerce, the seductions...
The fire we carry within doesn’t thrive without attentiveness. You must tend it. Tending means adding fuel, providing plenty of oxygen, occasional stirring and always honoring it.My...
I failed to acknowledge the source of the image I used yesterday regarding fear. It comes from a wonderful book by Michael Meade, The World Behind the World. Michael is a well known...
April 30, 2008On the day you are wed:You both know that I have worked hard to understand what it is that marriage adds to life. I have listened to hundreds of couples talk of their
Many people think leadership and marriage are two separate conversations. We see them as intertwined - You're as good a partner as you are a leader, as effective a leader as you are...
There are many fathers out there with young daughters. Most of you who emailed are in awe of them. I am too. But there's another thing to remember. Though leaving childhood, they are...
My ten year old daughter, savy, energetic and tuned in has just turned the corner from sweet five year old who adores daddy to pre teen queen for whom daddy is a servant leader. She...
Tuesday morningA CEO called me early this morning. He was frustrated. His VP of sales 'wasn't getting it done.' She spent too much time on 'housekeeping' items - things that needed
Curiosity, Pathway to Intimate ConversationMany of us assume we know our partners – a lot of comedy is built around that premise – but we really don’t. Some of us say that our partners...
Real Live Preacher of www.HighCallingBlog.com has encouraged us to keep writing about marriage. Their blog is a blog worth visiting since it is not positional nor is it exclusionary....
The Beatles sang it this way "woke up, got out of bed, ran a comb across my head..." Early morning here in So.Cal. I'm padding down to the kitchen in the still too cool morning my wife...
LoveSome say there are three kinds of love. Agape, which carries the meaning ‘to treat with affection,’ philia a kind of brotherly love, and eros the love that drives us to procreate....
California wildfires remind us of many things not the least of which is how a dried out landscape can invite disaster. We look at marriage that way. Dry, humorless, cold and indifferent...
Leadership and Marriage: They feed each otherLeadership and Marriage are two concepts we don’t often put together. We seem to think.relationships are about love, about communication,...
Men and Women and HappinessN.Y.Times 9/26/07 “A Reversal in the index of Happy”I’m always surprised when a researcher, reporting their latest study comparing men and women, miss the...
Marriage and the Presidential CandidatesI have often thought that the best way to tell if a candidate for president is truly qualified to lead the diverse population of leaders and
Marriage: Labor of Love Labor Day is a time to honor those who labor and are not necessarily compensated accordingly. It is a time for gratitude and a calling as well, to consider...
Mark Goodyear has left a new comment on your post "Pre Marriage> Coaching":>> This reminds me of John Gottman's Love Lab. John Medina, a scientist> who worked with Gottman, told me
Back in Hoboken where I was born, August was associated with humid and hot days. Fireplug days for kids. The ice man delivered ice to our apartment, a huge block of ice on his shoulder...
Recently a young woman called me to inquire about 'pre marital coaching.' "Do you have a program?" she asked. I said "Do you?" She laughed. I asked her several more serious questions:...
