"Love Cycles, My Ability to be Me and Still Stay Connected to You"

Show Guest: Linda Carroll

The notions that passion always peters out, that there's a "seven-year itch," and that the honeymoon is over

as soon reality sets in have some truth to them. But, Love Cycles: The Five Essential Stages of Lasting Love

promises that long-term, wholehearted love is still possible. Author and veteran couples therapist Linda

Carroll explains that love is cyclical and comprised of five distinct stages: the Merge, Doubt and Denial,

Disillusionment, Decision, and "Wholehearted Loving". Join us as Carroll describes how love's more

challenging stages are part of genuine intimacy, rather than signs of its demise.