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Toyota 5-why formula helps marriage conflict

Toyota’s 5-Why Formula: Adding Compassion to Ease Marriage Conflict

How Toyota’s famous 5-Why formula will help ease conflict in your marriage Your marriage conflict can benefit by using a technique invented by a car company. Just add a dose of compassion to the famous Toyota-5-Why strategy and you’ll notice a radical improvement in the way you and your spouse…

Rebecca S MullenMay 5, 2022

Communication Marriage

Marriage + Money Conflict: Fight Less, Understand More

In your marriage, does conflict about money sound like this? “You spent HOW much on a new coat?” you say to your spouse. It’s too painful to say what you really want to say in your marriage, I want you to take care of me. I want you to take…

Rebecca S MullenMay 2, 2022

Communication Marriage

Love Notes for Your Marriage: Quick & Creative

Creating memorable love notes will keep your marriage tender and vital. And a love note doesn’t have to take a ton of time. My husband—a carpenter when I married him—took off his 20-pound tool belt to eat lunch. He bit into the sandwich I’d made for him and …what was…

Rebecca S MullenApril 20, 2022

Use april fools day pranks to bond with your teenager

Marriage Parenting

April Fools Day Pranks Increase the Love

April Fool’s Day is a Sexy Holiday. Why do I say this? Because laughter and joy are the best aphrodisiacs. When you’re laughing, and especially when you inhabit that impish energy of the trickster, you’re ready to take risks. Risks are exciting to the lover in your relationship. What tiny…

Rebecca S MullenMarch 23, 2022

Communication Marriage

How do you respond to the silent treatment?

The silent treatment: How should you respond? You walk in the door to say hello and your spouse turns their back and buries their face in the phone. You feel a chill in the air and suddenly your body feels shaky and tentative. You start dinner in an attempt to…

Rebecca S MullenMarch 17, 2022

the silent treatment: get help for your marriage

Communication Marriage

Marriage Conflict: How to Deal with the Silent Treatment

How do you deal with the silent treatment when you have marriage conflict? Who’s gives the stonier silent treatment in your marriage? When my husband makes me angry, I feel it first in my jaw, which tightens, “I’m fine.” “Nothing,” is my icy response as I turn and give my…

Rebecca S MullenMarch 11, 2022

Communication Marriage

The Way You Chop Onions Will Give You More Intimacy

What's the best way to hug in your marriage? Staying for the end of a hug changed my marriage and it will change your relationship too. Do you stay for the whole hug your spouse wants to give? What happens when you leave a hug early? Read on to discover…

Rebecca S MullenFebruary 14, 2022

When you know to look for hearts you find hearts everywhere

Communication Marriage

What Do Barf and Lice Have to do with Valentine’s Day?

Keep your Valentine's traditions simple so you'll repeat them. The more awkward and imperfect your family’s Valentine tradition, the more it will warm your family memories in the decades to come. Don’t worry about FaceBook perfect Valentine traditions. When it comes to your family, it’s the terrible, horrible moments that…

Rebecca S MullenFebruary 3, 2022

Three relationships inside your singular marriage: sync up

Communication Marriage

What happens when you’re not in sync with your spouse?

How do you build connection in your marriage? You want to agree about finances. You want to enjoy a dinner out. You want more hot sex. But sometimes you’re just not in sync with your spouse. Why? And how can you fix it? There are three relationships inside your singular…

Rebecca S MullenJanuary 6, 2022

Friendship is one of three relationships inside your singular marriage

Communication Marriage

What happens when you’re not in sync with the friend you married?

Is it OK to expect your spouse to be your friend? There are three relationships inside your singular marriage. Sometimes you’re in sync, and everything just flows. These flow times happen when each of you is occupying the same role at the same time. But what happens when you’re not…

Rebecca S MullenJanuary 5, 2022

The partner-relationship of your marriage lets you and your spouse achieve together

Communication Marriage

What happens when you’re not in sync with your partner?

What’s a reasonable expectation to have of your partner? There are three roles inside your singular marriage. Sometimes you’re in sync with your partner. Everything just flows. These flow times happen when each of you is occupying the same role at the same time. But what happens when you’re not…

Rebecca S MullenJanuary 4, 2022

Communication Marriage

What happens when you’re not in sync with your lover?

What’s a reasonable expectation to have of your lover? There are three roles/relationships inside your singular marriage. Sometimes you’re in sync with your lover and everything just flows. These flow times happen when each of you is occupying the same role at the same time. But what happens when you’re…

Rebecca S MullenJanuary 4, 2022

Toyota’s 5-Why Formula: Adding Compassion to Ease Marriage Conflict

Marriage + Money Conflict: Fight Less, Understand More

Love Notes for Your Marriage: Quick & Creative

April Fools Day Pranks Increase the Love

How do you respond to the silent treatment?

Marriage Conflict: How to Deal with the Silent Treatment

The Way You Chop Onions Will Give You More Intimacy

What Do Barf and Lice Have to do with Valentine’s Day?

What happens when you’re not in sync with your spouse?

What happens when you’re not in sync with the friend you married?

What happens when you’re not in sync with your partner?

What happens when you’re not in sync with your lover?

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