Tag: Relationship
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Relationships: When Good Communication Skills Aren’t Enough
by Barry Kerr and Kristine Gay All kinds of wonderful books and workshops teach good communication skills and tools. How many of these do you practice? Respect timing. Ask permission or schedule a time. Talk in turns. Give your partner a chance to speak. Use “I” statements. Using the word “you” tends to sound like […]
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Why Husbands Resist Marital Counseling
by Barry Kerr and Kristine Gay When is the best time for couples to ask for professional help? The simple answer is: as soon as possible. In fact, we would recommend to anyone single and looking for love to add to your list of “must haves” in a partner the willingness to ask for outside […]
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Arguing – an addiction?
by Barry Kerr (This is a revised version of an article I published in Natures Pathways magazine in January, 2014 and previously published on this blog.) Like a good argument? I don’t mean an emotional fight. I mean a good intellectual, logical argument. The kind that Socrates would approve of. If your answer is “yes”, […]
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3 Ways Successful Couples Do Better
When Good Communication Skills Aren’t Enough By Barry Kerr and Kristine Gay All kinds of wonderful books and workshops teach good communication skills and tools. How many of these do you practice? Respect timing. Ask permission or schedule a time. Talk in turns. Give your partner chance to speak. Use “I” statements. Using the word […]
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Time alone — A love story
By Barry Kerr and Kristine Gay Ever notice how sometimes, when alone, you long to be with someone and sometimes, with someone, you can’t wait to be alone? It’s a natural rhythm we all feel, and as with most things, requires balance. Yet, there are times in life when you can experience such a prolonged […]
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The Art of Belonging
by Barry Kerr and Kristine Gay Do you ever feel like a “stranger in a strange land”? Given all the craziness on planet Earth, it might be comforting to know you don’t belong here, like maybe you come from a more functional alien planet. That would explain everything, right? Yet, even if that were true, […]
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Sacred Sex – The Urge to Merge
By Barry Kerr and Kristine Gay How’s your sex life? For most of us, this question, and the answer to it, can at times dominate our day-to-day self-awareness and sense of happiness or discontent. The urge to merge is one of the most driving forces in human nature. When your sex life is going well, […]
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Committing To Relationship: A Different Approach
By Barry Kerr and Kristine Gay Life presents us with one simple choice at any given moment: to keep our heart open to love and invite truth into our awareness, or to withdraw into fear and resist. We face this choice again and again, without end. It is within our closest relationships that this choice […]
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