Bring connection and fun to your entertainment evening

Inviting over friends tonight?  Entertainment of TV, Cards, or one of twenty year old game titles everyone has played so many times before.  Looking for one of the best couples board games which also includes a healthy dose of connection for couples? I found one article about couples connection on the internet.  The internet became [...]

Keeping men happy in a long term relationship

Relationships like the seasons of our lives have many cycles and passages.  Over time familiarity can breed predictability and cause thoughts and reactions to become patterns.  After observing a recent arrangement between two of me friends I realized that they had been together so long that they could push each others buttons like someone playing [...]

Gender roles changing in relationships

We are all individuals when we’re single or not in a relationship.  As we join with others these dynamics slowly change as we become a couple or “item” as they say.  Our social interactions with others change from radiating “who we are” to radiating “I am couple”. Here’s a connection to a humorous article which [...]

Seeing sunshine when I am mad | Anger Management

Stress when your partner does something that makes you mad.  More stressful because you have told that person how that action makes you mad.  Anger and frustration in your relationship can be managed by just looking at your partner and finding something good you feel about them.  This little action will buy your angered mind [...]

Stress at home|Let those who stress you provide relief

I know what my days are like when I come home to the kids and this article talks about that feeling.  I am going to try this stress relief method in my relationship.

Can you build community at home

Back in the ‘olde days’, circa 1900, families gathered in the parlor and played the piano, sang, read books, and performed little plays and vignettes.  That was real quality family time and real connection with family back then.  Now it’s a little different.  Getting all together in the living room is very hard and then [...]

Compare social networking to being there has moved…

I found this article speaks to some of the concerns of communication today.  Is anyone listening.  Even as I write this I realize I am just putting it out there as a one way communication.  Like Facebook, texting and twitter there is really a “posting of the message” and you have no idea how many [...]

Better family communication with grandparents

The time worn expression printed on every family game is “Fun for the Whole Family”.  Well, I don’t think so!  Fun means that you are actually having fun playing with the kids and the parents.  A new game released on Amazon.com features the unique ability to asks both “Doing” and “Telling” questions that challenge all [...]

Improve college students social networking

College students are busy enough doing their studies and still finding time to FaceBook, Twitter and text each other with the smallest of things.  Parents have always been concerned with the new fangled methods of communicating with each other.  But now, possibly the technical aspects of the new tools is actually reducing the communication between [...]

Family Therapist talks new tools increase communication

Here’s a family therapist’s look at some new tools used to increase communication among couples and family members.  Read on for the details and experiences. http://dotellthegame.com/blog/tools-for-therapists/a-licensed-marriage-and-family-therapist-talks-about-do-tell-teaches-communication/