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Are you in a toxic relationship? Struggling with emotional intimacy? Does your husband value you? Looking to deepen intimacy in your marriage? Has trust been broken in your relationship? Wondering why your spouse or partner is emotionally unavailable? Or are you single and looking for dating advice or help creating new relationships? On this blog you’ll find practical insights and advice on many different relationship issues from us and other relationship experts.
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How To Stop Fighting In A Relationship
How do you stop fighting in a relationship? This is an all-important question for anyone in a serious relationship. In most...
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Sep 3, 20218 min read
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Scared To Get Married?
What do you do if you’re getting married but at the same time feeling scared to get married? We once coached a young couple who came to...
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Jul 28, 20214 min read
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Feeling Judged in Your Relationship
Do you ever feel judged and criticized by your partner? Do you have the sense that your husband doesn’t value you or your wife doesn’t...
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Jul 28, 20215 min read
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Understanding Women
As a heterosexual man married to a woman, I can safely say that being in relationship with Sonika, and other women before her, has...
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Jul 2, 20217 min read
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How To Make Your Spouse Happy. And What To Do If You Feel Resentful About It
Last week we published a video post entitled “How to Make Your Husband Happy” that included a few tips from us on what works for men. A...

Sonika Tinker, MSW, Co-Founder
Jul 1, 20214 min read
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Understanding Men
Being in relationship with a man is a fantastic adventure. It’s challenging and illuminating, even mysterious. Men are powerful, fun, and...
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May 31, 20215 min read
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How To De-Escalate Conflicts In Your Relationship
“We go from zero to a hundred in no time – there’s no in-between!” A woman in our last workshop described how she and her husband often ...
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May 4, 20214 min read
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Relational Disconnection
I’m reading a great book called Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria by Dr. Beverly Tatum. In the chapter I was...
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Apr 1, 20217 min read
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What You Think You Want In Relationship Is Not What You Really Want
When I was in my twenties, I thought getting to be with this woman Elena would make me happy. She was confident, cool, and independent...
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Feb 2, 20215 min read
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My Relationship Isn’t Perfect
Do you ever feel that your life and family don’t match the happy images you see on commercials? Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed, in a...

Sonika Tinker, MSW, Co-Founder
Jan 7, 20214 min read
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How To Bring Out The Best In Your Relationship
One of the benefits of Covid has been having more time to read books. I’d gotten so used to only consuming books through audio, but...
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Dec 2, 20205 min read
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Why Can’t I Commit In A Relationship?
Do you ever ask yourself, “Why can’t I commit in a relationships?” Or do you ask this question about your partner(s), wondering why THEY...
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Sep 29, 20205 min read
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We’re Getting A Divorce – What To Do?
If you have reached the point where you’re saying, “We are getting a divorce! What do I do?” then this post is a place for you to start....
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Sep 24, 20205 min read
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Having Fun In Relationship
Have you ever heard the saying, “Couples who play together, stay together”? A quick Google search into this saying yields some...
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Sep 15, 20206 min read
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10 Signs Of A Toxic Relationship
Have you ever found yourself in the kind of relationship where you’re asking, “Am I in a toxic relationship?” or “Is this relationship...
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Sep 10, 20208 min read
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The Subtle Ways Trust in a Relationship Is Broken
I was coaching a couple this week about how they take turns getting angry and shutting down in silence. During our session, she said she...
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Sep 9, 20205 min read
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Sex in relationship is last on the to-do list
Isn’t it funny how we always put sex and pleasure in relationship last on our list of priorities? Well, more sad than funny, really. Sex...

Sonika Tinker, MSW, Co-Founder
Aug 25, 20205 min read
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Freedom In Relationship
When we coach couples, a frequent concern is freedom in relationship. Or rather, the lack of freedom and the fear of losing freedom...
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Aug 21, 20203 min read
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Love Strategy
What is a Love Strategy? It’s the unique way in which you arrive at the experience of feeling loved. If the “What” is feeling loved, then...

Sonika Tinker, MSW, Co-Founder
Aug 21, 20203 min read
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Love And Giving In Relationship
Love gives. This is no more obvious than at the beginning of relationship. When we are in love, we are generous with our giving. We...

Sonika Tinker, MSW, Co-Founder
Aug 20, 20204 min read
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