We Love Each Other, but... Simple Secrets to Strengthen Your Relationship and Make Love Last
Language: English
Pages: 224
ISBN: 0312254709
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
We Love Each Other, But...offers simple, practical tips that will help you restore and strengthen a relationship that has gone off track. It lays out the nuts and bolts of building relationships so they continue to be gratifying over the long haul. Dr. Ellen Wachtel shows how, even when you feel like giving up on a relationship or marriage, you can recapture why you fell in love in the first place. Dr. Wachtel promises that there is more and suggests simple ways to keep vitality in relationships. In fact, she shows you and your partner how you can stay interested in each other for the rest of your lives.
Surviving Separation And Divorce
him. If, when angry, you consciously try to think of close moments, these frightening and confusing feelings will most likely fade. People have more control over their thoughts than they realize. You can refocus your thoughts from thinking that you don’t really love him to remembering times when he was supportive and caring. From your memory bank you can pull out the feeling of closeness during sex, or when you are cuddled up watching TV together, or when you peal with laughter over a private
has its benefits. After years of being together, you probably have become experts on the places and types of touch that you each find most enjoyable. Even if you don’t feel in the mood at first, after a short time you’ll probably get turned on. Below I will discuss what to do if you can’t get into it. But most often, if you decide to have sex you will find that it works out pretty well. Sometimes it will turn into something very passionate, and other times it will simply be a quickie, or as one
something merely to please them. They feel guilty and want their spouse to enjoy it more. You will feel less guilty if you make sure to reciprocate by doing things for your partner that you know he likes. And though it would be nice if you both liked everything equally, it’s not realistic. Your partner can kiss you even if it doesn’t turn him on, but you can’t demand his enjoyment. Sometimes, however, true enjoyment does develop with time. This can happen if you pair something that you feel
This helps deal with resentments—both expressed and hidden—that an older child may feel for a younger sibling, despite attempts to give the older child equal attention. The parent tells the child that although she is expected to act her age, “You’ll always be my baby.” Depending on the comfort level of the child and the parent, Play Baby activities can involve anything from wrapping up a school-age child in a “blankie” and giving him a “baba,” to reading him a favorite book from his toddler days,
trouble separating from me,” says Rebecca about her five-year-old son. “I try not to leave him more than I have to. My husband thinks I’m just caving in and spoiling him. But if we did go out and leave him, I’d worry about how unhappy he was.” “I’m not mad just because I want to go out more often,” says Rebecca’s husband, Rob. “I know he’s scared, but he has to learn to get over it. I’m worried that he’ll become a weak, wussy type of kid if we give in to this. Other kids will see him as a