Be creative in showing your love for your partner. Although many times my work with couples involves helping them work as a team to handle a problem, sometimes it involves teaching one or the other or both to be creative in their love for one another. For example, I recently was asked by a client […]
Taking the Initiative On Valentine’s Day
This month’s Ask Coach Kathy talks about taking the initiative to show you care. I go through this every year the week before Valentine’s Day … I feel immobilized. I never know what to do for my wife. I’ve never been very romantic and I’m so afraid whatever I do won’t be right, so I […]
Relationships, Emotions and the Coronavirus in the 2020 Holiday Season
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 […]
