Deepen Your Pool of Connection with SPARCH ("Spark")

The last post discussed what PARCHeS relationships – or some reasons emotional connections go from pools to puddles. This post will focus on ways to deepen the relationship pool and the answer actually involves rearranging the same letters as PARCHS to form the word SPARCH...

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Connection Breakers - What PARCHeS Relationship Pools of Connection?

The last post was about “relation dehydration” – or losing water from your emotional connection pool (reading it will help make more sense out of this post). In a nutshell, the icy distance between spouses stems from one of three sources: evaporation (neglecting the relationship),...

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Have You Experienced Relation-Dehydration?

One of the most common experiences most every couple will go through will be feeling like they are in a rut—they  feel bored and the excitement of earlier years is now lost in the mundane routines of life, kids, work, and housework. Following the theme of this blog, relationship connection...

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Turn TOWARD Calls for Connection

In our fast-paced busy lives we often get caught up with our never-ending “to do” list and the stress and demands of work leave us tired and cranky. The result is little energy and motivation for emotional connection with our kids or spouse. In fact, research tells us that...

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Avoid Stepping in Puddles

As we weave our way down the highway of life it is inevitable that we will experience some difficulties, ranging from occasional bumps in the road to serious tragedy and anguish.  But it’s important to take a step back and view these from different perspectives. Where...

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Opposition in all things...Real versus False Connections

An article from Times magazine notes that genealogy, or exploring your family history, is the second most popular hobby next to gardening. Even more telling, these sites happen to be the second most visited category of websites. The most visited category of websites? Pornography. ...

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