Connecting | Unconventional Coaching

June 18, 2013
3:16 pm
Topic:
Connecting

Feeling Far Away From Your Love Today? »

Out of touch? Would you like to feel closer tonight? Here’s a thought: “Intimacy with your partner rises or falls in direct proportion to your capacity to listen well,” Harriet Lerner. Have you been really hearing what your partner has to say? Just really listening could pave the way for some closeness, humor, touching, sex——–connection. […]

January 22, 2013
8:12 pm
Topic:
Connecting

Relationships are Hard Work. Really?? »

The New York Times had an interesting headline last week: “That Loving Feeling Takes a Lot of Work.” It actually is a terrific article by Jane Brody about bringing more surprise and pleasure into a relationship, but the title irks me. This equation: relationships = [hard] work is used so often that it has become […]

November 13, 2012
7:01 pm
Topic:
Connecting

Self-Disclosure »

I have been asked several times recently if I am in a good relationship. That’s easy. I am. What I mean by that is that we each feel that we are real, honest, and at the same time, still romantic and deeply in love. There is an amazing texture and complexity to our relationship–an understanding […]

October 17, 2012
7:02 pm
Topic:
Connecting

Two-Minute Relationship Boost »

Quick! Find at least four great things your partner has said or done in the last few days. We’re talking real live stuff here. Words and actions that involve you. They could be minimal–a few seconds longer in your kiss, a sideways smile–or big–helping you solve a work problem, or fixing an amazing dinner. Find […]