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Boundaries

April 24, 2018
In these videos Sam and Kerri have a conversation about boundaries and how they sometimes go wrong.

Pin the tail on the...

January 25, 2018 · Conflict Resolution,Communication
Too many couples get stuck in a nasty cycle of trying to assign blame for their problems.....

52 Things I love about you...

December 24, 2017 · Love Languages
52 Things I love about you... A few years ago when finances were tight Kerri gave me a gift...

The Shared To Do List

December 12, 2017 · Problem Solving
Here’s something I thought up tonight in a session. It’s for the couples who have lots of...

Tis the Season to be Generous

December 6, 2017 · Communication
Tis the Season to be Generous So the holidays are typically a time where generosity makes a...

Argh! Can't you see that needs to be done?

September 14, 2017 · Expectations
So let's talk about housework. Domestic duties. Role expectations. Recently I was working with...

Can you simultaneously love your spouse and help them grow?

September 11, 2017 · Expectations,Communication
I just read a really fascinating article in the opinion section of the New York Times entitled...

Defensiveness

September 11, 2017 · Conflict Resolution,Communication
Defensiveness is one of Gottman’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and needs to be identified and...

Even Professionals Struggle with Communication

September 6, 2017 · Expectations
Today, I was very excited when my husband suggested that we go to coffee and write together! This...

This guy, his laptop and his large coffee...

September 6, 2017 · Expectations
Isn't it funny how it's so much easier to focus on the external things that seem to be keeping us...

Coming Soon - Fall 2017

June 16, 2017
Coming Soon - Fall 2017 a fun blog providing hope for relationships, especially marriage,...
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  • Unfinished Business...

    Here's a few of our thoughts, and musings about marriage, relationships and our journey of making room for one more through adoption. This blog is also about a real life battle with perfectionism. It would seem that no post we attempt to write ever seems quite "finished" enough. But we are sharing anyway.

    Boundaries

    April 24, 2018
    In these videos Sam and Kerri have a conversation about boundaries and how they sometimes go wrong.
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    Pin the tail on the...

    January 25, 2018 · Conflict Resolution,Communication
    Too many couples get stuck in a nasty cycle of trying to assign blame for their problems...squarely on their partner's buttocks (preferably pronounced with a Forrest Gump accent). It looks like the childhood game where you take a kid, blindfold them, hand them a thumbtack and a paper tail and...
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    52 Things I love about you...

    December 24, 2017 · Love Languages
    52 Things I love about you... A few years ago when finances were tight Kerri gave me a gift that keeps on giving. She wrote down 52 things she loved about me on a deck of cards. It was a simple gift but took some serious effort on her part. BUT it continues to speak my love language of Words of...
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