This month’s Ask Coach Kathy discusses how to validate your mate’s emotions as you navigate through the holiday season. My wife and I are disagreeing on Christmas this year. She’s afraid to spend the amount we usually do on gifts for the family because of the uncertainty of the virus. She wants to have a […]
Ask Coach Kathy
What gift do you get your mate when you are afraid that no matter what you give her, she will hate it? As long as whatever you give your partner, you give the story behind the gift, the chances of her hating it will decrease dramatically. True giving has time, energy, and thought attached […]
Ask Coach Kathy Dawson, Relationship Coach
I may be paranoid, but when I give my wife gifts at Christmas, she seems appreciative, but not that enthused. I feel a bit defeated when this happens. I’m not sure what to do about it. I knew a husband once who gave his wife the lid of a frying pan! Needless to say she […]
Ask Coach Kathy Dawson, Relationship Coach
With Valentine’s Day tomorrow, I am really stumped as to what to do for my wife. If I bring home another box of candy, I think she’ll throw it at me. Help! Okay, if you really want to knock her socks off, spend the rest of the time you’re with her today and some of […]
Gift Giving at the Holidays
Ironically, even though this is the season of joy, one of the major components of it, gift exchanging, can cause the most stress. Giving and receiving gifts in a relationship is an important exercise in love and acceptance. So why does it sometimes go terribly wrong? To help you this holiday season, I am giving […]
