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Past articles by Linda Charlie:
Feeling Lost? Part 3
Here’s a Map Intimacy/Lover Linda: When you begin to master the tasks of the wanderer, caregiver, warrior, and orphan, you move into the intimacy stage. All along we have had unpredictable episodes of intimacy. These become more consistent once we’ve... → Read More
Feeling Lost? Part 2
Hereâs a Map Linda: In a committed relationship that means a great deal to us, itâs not so easy to walk away when difficulties arise. These difficulties tend → Read More
Feeling Lost? Part 1
Hereâs a Map Marriage is a pit full of pitfalls, devised by some devious deity for our conscious evolution. - Wavy Gravy Linda: The path of committed → Read More
7 Factors Comprising Resilience
Springing back from adversity Linda: A piece of clay sat in the potter’s studio. Everyday, it watched as the potter picked up another piece of clay and → Read More
In the Eyes of the Beholder
Seeing things through new eyes. Charlie: Many of us toss around the notion of “the truth” as though there is an incontestable, objective “reality” and that we know what it is. More often than not these words refer to something... → Read More
Making Romance Last Part 1
Growth happens in the discomfort zone. Linda: Enlarging our comfort zone is good for us as individuals and terrific for us as a couple. Our life becomes more → Read More
Making Romance Last Part 2
What allows some couples to keep romance alive? Linda: Novelty is characterized by newness, freshness, unconventionality, unfamiliarity, difference, imaginativeness, creativity, and innovation. It is a habit of happy couples to allow the desire for novelty... → Read More
Making Romance Last Part 1
Growth happens in the discomfort zone. Linda: Enlarging our comfort zone is good for us as individuals and terrific for us as a couple. Our life becomes more → Read More
In Kindness Will I Speak
A strong intention to do no harm. In due season will I speak, not out of season. In truth will I speak, not in falsehood. For his benefit will I speak, not → Read More
Sublime Stretching
Stretching into our partner’s world. Linda: In their best selling book on negotiation, Getting to Yes, Fisher, Ury and Patton explain “The ability to see the situation as the other side sees it, as difficult as it my be, is one of the most important... → Read More
Want to keep love alive? Here’s how.
10 Ways to keep love alive. Linda: There is an idea going around that you may have heard, that-long term relationships eventually and inevitably become flat → Read More
These Words Will Take You a Long Way
If you have something nice to say, then by all means, say it! And did you get what You wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, To feel myself beloved on the earth. “Late Fragment” – Raymond Carver Christopher... → Read More
Love and Good Sex Aren’t Always Enough to Affair-Proof Your Marriage
Affairs aren’t necessarily about sex. A lot of people who hold this belief have experienced deep disappointment in discovering that it’s not necessarily true. This myth is deeply imbedded in our culture and is even held by a fairly large number... → Read More
Love Isn’t Something You Fall Into
“Lovers are those for whom no minute is like any other, people between whom nothing habitual takes place, just what is new, unprecedented, unexpected. In such connections there exists an almost unbearable happiness. When we understand our lives... → Read More
Honoring the Rule of Reciprocation
Creative Commons License llinddsayy via Compfight In his book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert Cialdini makes reference to what he considers to be one of the most important yet often unrecognized factors inherent in the art and practice... → Read More
Want to keep love alive? Here’s how.
"Date Your Mate" There is an idea going around that you may have heard, that-long term relationships eventually and inevitably become flat and boring. → Read More