Title: Getting the Love You Want; Bend, OR
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Date: March 18-20th, 2011
Description: Getting the Love You Want is a weekend specifically designed to help couples truly discover the joy of being together. You will learn how to:

Successfully express your own desires.
Get to the root of your problems and dissolve them.
Create [...]

Title: Getting the Love You Want; Bend, OR
Sign Up: Click here
Date: September 22-24th 2011
Description: Getting the Love You Want is a weekend specifically designed to help couples truly discover the joy of being together. You will learn how to:

Successfully express your own desires.
Get to the root of your problems and dissolve them.
Create [...]

As a marriage counselor I see far too much blame. Blame hurts, it kills love and it isn’t correct and useful information for your spouse.  Consider my relationship advice on how to stop the Blame Game:

Realize when you find yourself blaming your partner that you have unexpressed feelings or needs. Ask yourself, “what are my [...]

This marriage counselor often sees a theme emerge in marriages when partners struggle with their differences. It usually comes after the glow of the initial honeymoon or romantic stage of our relationship when we begin to realize that our marriage isn’t all we imagined it would be or that it now takes work.  This is [...]

KEEPING THE LOVE YOU FIND:
An Imago Workshop for Individual Issues
Are you tired of repeating the same old relationship patterns? Do you realize that no matter how many breakups you suffer, you still pick the same type of partner? Are you ready to unlock the cage you have built around your heart? Have you heard about [...]

An experienced and qualified marriage counselor knows that most couples do not start marriage counseling until their marriage is in peril. Research shows that most couples should have started marriage counseling seven years earlier. There is a significant number of couples that enter therapy believing their marriage is “too far gone” to save and they [...]

Marriage counselors often hear a couple’s pain over unmet expectations. “And the two shall become one…” words that most of us have heard from the Bible at a wedding ceremony, exemplify some common expectations. Does this mean that our marriage union will become the focus of our lives?  What happens when partners have different ideas [...]

What marriage counselors know: Personal Happiness Comes from Successful Marriages. Sandra Bullock’s Happiness Trade: Is it better to win a prestigious award or have a husband who won’t cheat on you?
Columnist David Brooks gives us statistics on what makes people truly happy. Hint: it isn’t money or fame. As marriage counselors have always known, it is a happy intimate relationship.

Even the most practiced skills can go right out the window when a couple has an argument.
What can couples do when they find themselves triggered and defensive? Have a “do-over”!

“Marriage counseling was the best thing we ever did”, exclaimed a past client of mine when I noticed he and his wife sitting at a table in our small town local restaurant.  I had just popped in for lunch and noticed them looking my way. I wanted to respect their privacy, but they were eager [...]