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4 Games to Put the “Fun” in Dysfunction This Holiday Season

What do you do when your mom slays you in that way that only she can and says, “Oh, I see you’ve julienned the carrots when I asked for slices.” For you, it might not be your mom. But I bet there’s someone in your family of origin who makes…

Rebecca S MullenNovember 20, 2025

Communication Marriage

Love Across the Divide: How to Bridge Differences in Your Marriage

Is there someone in your life that you love dearly and they vote differently from you? And their choice to vote so differently is making it hard for you to be close to them? Love them, even? Our nation’s polarization is ending marriages. This is my attempt at this difficult…

Rebecca S MullenOctober 23, 2025

Communication Marriage

4 Steps to Financial Freedom: Money Conversations that Build Intimacy with Your Partner

What if talking about money could create as much intimacy with your partner as walking hand in hand, or staying out late drinking your favorite beverage staring into each other’s eyes? Do you remember my 3-part framework I use to describe the three roles inside your singular relationship: Partner, Lover,…

Rebecca S MullenOctober 16, 2025

Communication Marriage

Aligning Money and Values: The Secret to Paying Yourself First

How can you find a bigger and bigger YES! when it comes to spending money such that it’s easier and easier to say NO to the things that will distract you from your deepest values? I’ve read many financial books that offer advice about budgeting and investing. The common denominator…

Rebecca S MullenOctober 9, 2025

Communication Marriage

3 Tools to Shift Your Money Mindset and Connect with Your Partner

What happens when you have a toxic, or even just tenuous, relationship with money? How does that impact the relationship with your partner? My husband and I didn’t argue about much. But when it came to money, we had serious conflict. When I cleaned up my thoughts about money, and…

Rebecca S MullenOctober 2, 2025

Communication Marriage

Why Blending and Judging are Sabotaging Your Relationship (and How to Stop)

Staying in your own business is the number 1 tool when it comes to your happily ever after. But what are the biggest challenges to staying in your own business? There are two main elements I see that make it difficult to stay in your own business: Blending and judging.…

Rebecca S MullenSeptember 11, 2025

Communication Marriage

How to Trust Your Parenting Intuition

Parenting is full of a zillion decisions. And that decision fatigue impacts your relationship. How do you know if you’re making the right decisions and choices as a parent? And how do you deal with decision fatigue in a way that is supportive—instead of destructive—to your relationship? Sometimes the hardest…

Rebecca S MullenJuly 24, 2025

Communication Marriage

How to Make a New Friend as an Adult

Why did it seem so easy to make friends in kindergarten? And how do you make a new friend now that you’re an adult? Do you remember being in kindergarten when you could walk up to someone and say, “Will you be my friend?” Well, my mother used food to…

Rebecca S MullenJuly 3, 2025

Communication Marriage

How to Practice Happiness

Did you know that happiness takes practice? My father wasn’t perfect. He has some serious short-comings, and he hurt me a lot over the years, but my father is responsible for teaching me how to be happy. My father didn’t wait for happiness to find him. He was a happiness…

Rebecca S MullenJune 12, 2025

Communication Marriage

Compare and Despair: How to Break Free from the Cycle and Stay Sane

You were feeling fine—until you saw their vacation photos. When you compare, you don’t just lose confidence—you lose connection, too. Let's talk about how to break free from that cycle. You’ve heard the phrase, compare and despair, right? Well today we’re gonna change that to remain in your lane so…

Rebecca S MullenMay 29, 2025

Communication Marriage

How to Reconnect with Your Partner When Affection Fades

What’s the impact of small bits of affection on your relationship? Tenderness can fade when you stop touching each other. Touch flavors the tone of your voice. Soft touch tends to draw you and your partner together. And all that togetherness creates the tenderness you want in your relationship. I…

Rebecca S MullenMay 22, 2025

Communication Marriage

The Power of “Thank You”: Unlocking Love and Acceptance in Relationships

What does it feel like inside of you when your partner says a genuine “Thank you?” Have you ever had this experience? Your partner says, “Thank you,” … for dinner, or because you picked up the kids at soccer practice, and you feel yourself get a little bit rigid.…

Rebecca S MullenMay 15, 2025

4 Games to Put the “Fun” in Dysfunction This Holiday Season

Love Across the Divide: How to Bridge Differences in Your Marriage

4 Steps to Financial Freedom: Money Conversations that Build Intimacy with Your Partner

Aligning Money and Values: The Secret to Paying Yourself First

3 Tools to Shift Your Money Mindset and Connect with Your Partner

Why Blending and Judging are Sabotaging Your Relationship (and How to Stop)

How to Trust Your Parenting Intuition

How to Make a New Friend as an Adult

How to Practice Happiness

Compare and Despair: How to Break Free from the Cycle and Stay Sane

How to Reconnect with Your Partner When Affection Fades

The Power of “Thank You”: Unlocking Love and Acceptance in Relationships

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