Active listening is a technique of paying full attention to what is being said, and includes mirroring back what you’ve heard. However, because mirroring focuses on the words, it takes you out of the present by preparing to echo back. Instead, concentrate on and absorb the whole message.

It’s important in every relationship to find a balance between your comfort zone and novelty. Look at your mutual life and how it is organized. Even when it is great, it might be fun to see if there’s a way to add some newness in your shared experience!

The concept of being together and at the same time remaining separate is a cornerstone of relationships. What is required to live a life where deep sharing and individual personal progress are both supported and joyfully celebrated? The key to this is the ABC of Acceptance, Balance and Communication.

We see sexual encounters as lying on a spectrum from two people having separate sexual experiences together to a full union. The former is about self-pleasure, a form of masturbation where your partner is a sex aid. The latter enters the realm of the mystical, the spiritual

We have been discussing how to keep love alive in your relationship, suggesting ways to share and interact with your partner that will infuse your relationship with passion and kindness.

For this to work, you have to like being with your partner, and you have to like being with yourself as well.Click here to read more...

You probably agree on the need to feed your relationship, and yet there still remains the question of how to do it. How do you keep the love alive in your everyday life? Today we look at some specific actions that we and couples we’ve interviewed do.

Do not take your relationship for granted. Be present. Pay attention. Observe and listen to your partner. Your relationship is a living thing. It changes all the time. It is how it is today because of what happened yesterday, and tomorrow it will be affected by how you act today.

Empathy means the ability to understand and share the feeling of another. To feel connected to each other, we must be able to experience empathy. You can’t have a personal relationship without it. It helps you solve issues and make choices that work for both of you.

Phil: When we were writing the newsletter last week, Maude complained that I was irritated and impatient. I wasn’t fully conscious of that until she pointed it out. A lot of the technical aspects – for example, photo production – are in my domain, and sometimes I feel the weight of these and other responsibilities.Click here to read more...

The ways that we behave in our personal relationships are a pretty good approach to all relationships, whether BFF or your bank teller. Even for casual interactions, you can still give and receive joy by appreciating that each person is an individual.