Why You Need Rituals In Your Relationship (And How To Create Them)
If you will remember from a previous post, regularly practicing rituals is a sign you are doing marriage right. Why are rituals so important? Rituals foster deeper meaning in your relationship and a deeper connection with your partner. What rituals are already in...
Weekend Activity: Build A Campfire
The nights have been great for warming up by a nice toasty campfire. This weekend, plan to spend a few hours with your sweetie around a campfire or firepit. Here’s what you do: 1) Tell your favorite scary campfire story. I remember when I was a kid there...
Are You Having An Emotional Affair?
What exactly is an emotional affair you say? Well, the term emotional affair – according to the encyclopedia definition – describes a bond between two people that mimics the closeness and emotional intimacy of a romantic relationship while never being physically...
Weekend Activity: Play Games
If both of you enjoy playing games – whether video games or board games – this will be an easy, yet beneficial, weekend activity. However, there may be some of you who get perturbed by your partner’s screen time while playing video games. All I ask of you is to give...
How To Reboot Your Out-Of-Tune Relationships
Welcome back to the Unearth Your Passion Relationship Blog from AVL Couples Therapy! This week I have a guest post from an amazing therapist out of the Twin Cities. Brian Zirngible has recently opened his private practice in Burnsville, Minnesota, and his work focuses...
Weekend Activity: Get Back To Your Roots
This Saturday is Genealogy Day, a great day to look into your own roots. You don’t have to go back generations to make this activity useful, although it may be interesting to find out what your great-great-great-grandmother was up to back in her day. In this activity...
10 Tips To Master Co-Parenting
Are you separated or divorced, and having a difficult time co-parenting with your ex? If so, you are not alone. Parting ways with someone is often a difficult experience. And when you have a child with this someone, things can get complicated. Amanda Dutton of Healthy...
Weekend Activity: Read Your Partner’s Favorite Book
Not everyone is an avid book reader. Keep this in mind. If you two are not very excited about this activity just skip it. Do something this weekend that you do enjoy. And have fun! Now, for those of you who devour books – or at least do not loathe them – give this...
Meditation For Healthy Relationships
Today’s guest post is by Jeannie Ball of the Asheville Transcendental Meditation Center. Having practiced Transcendental Meditation, or TM, for over 5 years myself, I can attest to the stress relieving properties of the technique. Not only does TM relieve stress, it...
Weekend Activity: Write Your Partner An Old-Fashioned Love Letter
When is the last time you wrote something and gave it to your partner? And I’m talking about something more meaningful than a grocery list, and something other than signing off on a pre-written birthday or anniversary card! Can’t remember? Well, it’s time to change...
3 Strategies For Managing Relationship Conflict This Winter Season
Has being cooped up this winter season got you feeling a little snippy with your partner? Is The Winter Season To Blame? There are many reasons that the winter season can be stressful on relationships. The time from November to January is jam-packed with holidays,...
Weekend Activity: Take It Easy
Did you get last week’s activity completed? If so, congratulations! If not, hopefully you at least have a much shorter and more prioritized to-do list. Take it easy this weekend. Relax. Pamper yourself. Rest. Recharge your batteries. With your to-do list whittled...
The Relationship Round Up
I desire for the readers of the Unearth Your Passion Relationship Blog to be provided with the best relationship ideas and information that the web has to offer. With The Relationship Round Up you will be able to hear the voices of some of the greatest relationship...
Weekend Activity: 6 Ways To Keep Your To-Do List Under Control
Is your to-do list getting too long? Do you feel like you and your partner do not get enough time to relax over the weekend because there is always something on your list? Use this weekend to be fiercely productive and check off those items that have been hanging out...
A Child Centered Marriage: Good For No One
Last Summer I had the pleasure of meeting Shelly Hummel at a conference for marriage and family therapists. She is a Certified Gottman Therapist and will be writing a guest post for today. As someone who is taking the training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, I know...
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