This month’s Ask Coach Kathy focuses on my own experience of growing older together in a relationship. As a relationship ages, so do the two people in it! My husband is 73 years old and I’m 62, and we’ve been married for 35 years. A couple of years ago, we decided to join an aging-in-place […]
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 […]
Communicating with your Spouse
This month’s Ask Coach Kathy question is about Communication. Is it important to speak up and tactfully, lovingly communicate with your spouse any time there is something bothering you about what he or she is doing or not doing, if it’s a recurring situation? How do you know when you should speak up or just accept […]
Finding love in the New Year
Last week I appeared on Fox 8’s morning show and was interviewed by Wayne Dawson. The Relationship topic we discussed was two-fold: 1. How do you find love in the New Year? 2. If you’re already in a marriage or relationship, how do you jump-start it for the New Year? I hope you find at […]
