Balancing relationships can be difficult. My wife and my mother don’t care for one another. Mother’s Day is usually a nightmare for me. I feel torn. I want to have my mom over for dinner, but my wife doesn’t want to share a Mother’s Day with her. Once again, my wife resented my mom being […]
Relationship Tools Aren’t Just For Couples
Pull in these tools for your family When I work with you and your mate, I use around 35 relationship tools. I would say that 80% of these tools that you learn for the relationship with your mate, can be plugged into the relationship with your children. In this episode of Coach Kathy’s Clips, listen […]
Different Communication Styles in a Relationship
Often, when I work with a couple, I hear the complaint, “We have different communication styles.” I understand why having different communication styles can be seen as a negative rather than a positive, because many times opposite communication styles can clash and cause conflict. Not fun. Frankly, most partners walking the planet have different communication […]
Affection and Your Relationship
This month’s Ask Coach Kathy question is about physical intimacy. How do I get my spouse to be more affectionate? In almost every relationship, one partner physically touches more than the other. Having said that, the best way I know to encourage your mate to be more physically affectionate is to catch him or her […]
Practical Life with your Spouse
This month’s Ask Coach Kathy question is about Practical Life. We have identified strategies that seem to work to bring our relationship to a better place, but they don’t stick. We always end up falling back into “roommate living,” even if we used certain strategies for 6 months or more. Not sure why or how […]
