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Truth 5: It’s Not WHAT You Say; It’s HOW You Say It

We have all heard the statement: It’s not what you say but how you say it, that is important and for sure that is true. The tone of voice or the loudness we use with our partner can make a difference. In this chapter, however, Helen is challenging us to explore how we talk to […]

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Chapter 5: Personalizing Your Relationship Playbook

In this chapter, I will help personalize your relationship playbook. As a coach, whether it was hockey or football, I was privy to many different playbooks, but I always personalized them for our team. Any adaptions we made might be either to take advantage of the talent I had available at different positions or to […]

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Chapter 3 – Skills: The Safe Conversation Process

Coming up to Valentine’s Day – the tools are available in today’s world to have the relationship of your dreams.  So far we have seen the importance of safety. Your old reptilian brain has a 500 million-year track record, you are not going to change it. If you don’t feel safe you will protect yourself. […]

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The Relationship Revolution

The Relationship Revolution For the last 10 weeks we have been working our way through Harville Hendrix and his wife Helen’s book Making Marriage Simple 10 Relationship Saving Truths. There is a final chapter entitled The Relationship Revolution which is really their vision for the future. In the chapter we looked at last week, they […]

Truth 10: Your Marriage is the Best Life Insurance Plan

By the end of the book readers would know that Harville likes Star Trek and that one of his favorite characters is the Vulcan, Mister Spock. In fact, Harville credits Spock with summing up what he and Helen do. “It was Spock’s good-bye blessing that inspired me: Live long and prosper, and let peace be […]

Truth 9: Your Marriage is a Laughing Matter

The title of this chapter camouflages a more serious philosophical question: as humans, who are we really?  Harville’s contention is that: “At our core is JOY. It is our essential nature – with us from the moment of birth. Birds have flocks. Dogs have packs. Horses have herds. And humans are wired for connection.  Connection […]

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