The space between men and women, husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends, gets muddled and messy...by hurts, misunderstandings, regrets, disappointments, hurried lifestyles, illness, unsatisfied expectations and so many other things.
What Donna and I love about what we do...about the Between Men and Women retreats...is that it cleans up that space by giving people freedom to be who they are and to truly enjoy who they are with. It creates a particular quality of relating infused with connectedness, understanding, partnership, trust, peace, safety, and friendship.
This quality of relating is often unseen. It exists in the "space" between people. You won't see anything there. It's a felt space. Although you can see the couple's happiness and hear their love, these are just bookends to the unspoken "best-friendship" between them.
How to improve your marriage or romantic relationships? Good question. It can be a challenge. After all, humans are wired to seek out partners who will help us reproduce, which can pose a problem when our significant others don’t necessarily share the same values or desire to have children. In this blog and in my
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If you could dramatically reduce defensiveness in marriage in 2 days, would you? Defensiveness in marriage is a key cause of struggle between partners, so that may sound like a silly question, but the answer for most people is, “No”. I know that because if the answer was “Yes”, most people would get the relationship
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