Wendy Strgar
How We Listen
I am not sure if there is a more challenging aspect of relating than communicating. It is the currency of all relationships, personal and professional, and reflects us in the world more deeply than any other part of who we are.
The Benefit of The Doubt
There might be no more powerful change you can give your relationship than giving the people you love, starting with yourself, the benefit of the doubt. Generally speaking and almost without exception most of us are doing the best that we can at any given moment. We are being as loving as we can be, [...]
Making Time for Love
Making time for love is an important barometer of the commitment and sustainability of your relationship. When you consider the outrageous scheduling hoops we agree to without qualm in our work setting, or even more intensely in managing our children’s activity calendar, it makes you wonder how the idea of scheduling intimacy could still be [...]
The Practice of Love
Love takes practice. Love is an action verb that is skill based; our capacity to love is the source of our genius, the inspiration for our creativity, and the essence of what roots us to the earth. Seeing our relationships in terms of a practice of love drills is a helpful approach that can keep [...]
Fighting For Your Love
Some times you just have to fight about it. As human animals, conflict is not only a natural outcome of partnerships and family units; it is an essential part of building unity. Our differences may make life more interesting, but learning to deal with them effectively and with love is a challenge for [...]
Lighting the Spark: Creating Desire in Your Relationship
A lot of people do not know how to have sex. On the one side, we are inundated by an exhibitionist, anything goes sexuality in our pornographic laden culture and on the other side, there is nothing – an empty and lonely place where most of us live with our questions about sexuality [...]
Two Feet In
Although I don’t remember the exact day that I pulled the one foot that I had out the door back into my marriage, today, celebrating 24 years of marriage, I can’t remember the last time that it occurred to me that I would ever leave. It seems like I should remember when that change took [...]
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