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Say It Like Is: Effective communication skills for everyday life.

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It’s Okay to Be Angry

Chapter Three

What to Do When Your Partner Doesn’t Listen to Reason

Chapter Two

One Session Turned Her Marriage Around

Chapter One

Memories Become a Blueprint for How to Do Life or Not Do Life

Introduction:

The Relationship Dance

If you are stepping all over each other’s feet, you need to change your moves.

We Can Communicate Better!

An exercise designed to give couples a satisfying experience of communicating.

Don’t Kiss and Tell. One Way to Save Your Relationship After an Affair.

I read an article some time back in More Magazine called After the Affair. Wendy B. was seeking complete honesty from her straying husband after she stumbled upon an email to his lover. Yet later, as they worked toward putting their marriage back together, she regretted it. She said, "At the time I felt I had to know. Now I wish I could block out some of those details."

Couple Dynamics: The Jokester and the Serious One

Scenario:

Couple Dynamics: The Attacker and the Defensive One

In a situation where one partner attacks the other, both partners can be defensive but have very different styles.

Parenting Tips: How to Encourage Truth-Telling & Discourage Lying

One day when I was about seven, I overheard my mother talking to the Fuller Brush salesman at the door.