I Love You … I Love You Not

LovebirdsLove is a verb, it involves internal and external action. It is so easy to say “I love you” to someone who is providing what you need in the moment, is pleasing your senses, and is doing and being what you believe is correct. The emotion of love is just that – an emotion. And emotions can be quite fickle, changing in an instant. Continue reading

Accelerate the Love in Your Relationship

Accelerate Love

I Loved Singing Romantic Love Songs….

As a lifelong learner and synthesizer, I have always loved to study a subject in depth and then study a slightly different approach to that same subject and then another approach.  For example, when I learned guitar, I studied folk, jazz and joined a rock band course. Each new instructor thought that he or she had the secret to speeding up or accelerating my learning.  But for me there was no way to rush the process.  Continue reading

How High is Your Relationship Trust Rank?

This post was inspired by Sherman Smith’s Blog How Do You Build Trust Rank?

The Value of Trust

Balance by Salvatore Vuon, FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Balance by Salvatore Vuon, FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Trust develops when we do the right thing, even if nobody else knows but our partner, our business associate, our child or our friend.  If you made a date, saw the person sitting at the coffee shop table or waiting at the bar, and decided there is no attraction, what would you do?  Would you quietly slip out the door and let that person sit alone, waiting…?  Continue reading

A Loving Relationship is NOT an Olympic Event

Love is Too Difficult

  • Does creating a loving relationship feel like a monumental task?
  • Are you trying harder and harder with less and less satisfaction?
  • Did you think that life would be so much easier if only you had a partner?
  • Have you actually given up on finding love or doing what it takes?  Continue reading