Video Blog: Lovemaking Performance Anxiety – Helpful Words from a Therapist

Here is the gentle truth about sexual performance anxiety – I send this video with love and care, and hopeful blessings for you! If you are on this blog’s front page click on this article’s title, or else just click this link…

Video Blog: Why Lovemaking Fails…

You love each other – so why is it so weird? This could be the key….if you are on the blog front page, click on this article’s title to get to the video page, where you can click this link…

Video Blog: Is Your Partner Too Insecure (or anxious or depressed)?

I wish I didn’t see this so often with couples – one partner feels the other is just way too anxious or insecure – and they’re sick of it! But no matter how much of a “good guy” or gal they think they’ve been, it is almost ALWAYS the case that they haven’t worked as deeply as they think…if you’re on this blog’s homepage with all the other articles, first click on the title of this article – then once you’re one the page where this article is all by itself, you will be able to
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Is Your Partner Too Insecure (or anxious or depressed?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EadWBnhREs0

I wish I didn’t see this so often with couples: one partner thinks the other is just way too anxious or insecure – and they’re sick of it! No matter how much of a “good guy” or gal they think they’ve been, it is almost always the case that they haven’t worked as deeply as they think! HEALING IS POSSIBLE even if it’s been years…it starts with understanding the truth of these words…

How to Discuss “Eggshell” Topics

One of the biggest challenges couples face is: how to talk about “eggshell” topics – those topics that you can’t discuss without fighting, or hurting feelings, or getting defensive – topics that one way or another, whenever you approach them, you both ending up feeling like crap about the relationship… Topics like: in-laws and relatives and friends you disagree on; past hurts, or future plans; personal hygiene, kids – and of course, money…you avoid these topics, yet they simmer unspoken beneath the surface; live-wire obstacles to real trust and intimacy and fulfillment. That’s why there shouldn’t
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What Does A Healthy Relationship Look Like?

What does a healthy relationship look like? This is one of the most-asked questions on the internet – which means that millions of people don’t know if they are doing it “right.” Maybe you think you are “supposed to” hold hands all the time, and gaze into each other’s eyes, and make each other laugh, and have passionate sex every night – but instead: “We never even see each other, and when we do we just watch tv and read without talking to each other – that can’t be right!” Maybe your relationship feels right –
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Long-Term Couples: Sexual Healing and Improving (Sex Blog #1)

If you think you are dealing with sexual issues in your relationship, guess what: your issues are really much deeper than sex. However, they are showing up in your relationship in the form of sex. For the purposes of this blog, let’s define “sexual issues” as: one or both of you are uncomfortable or unhappy with the sex in your relationship – too much, too little, or the energy and emotions just don’t feel right. Solving these issues requires a new mindset: before reaching sexual solutions, you must first face the more basic issues that are
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