By Dennis Green | Trust
Trust is like rubber cement. This may seem like a weird analogy, but for anyone who has ever used rubber cement, you know how valuable it is. Elementary teachers sing the praises of rubber cement, but for those growing up in the digital age and not familiar with it, here is how it works. Rubber […]
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The longer you live together, romance can change to no-mance. You don’t notice how you gradually stop complimenting your partner or quit helping each other around the house. You don’t turn down the bed covers anymore or kiss each other goodnight or hug before you leave for work. You disagree about what the kids should eat […]
Continue readingBy Mary Lou Green | Romance
People who feel unhappy in their marriages often gripe, “What happened to the romance we had when we were dating?” You can’t stay in love by showing your partner that some days they don’t matter. Marriages fail because caring fails. Caring for one another requires individual effort. It requires knowing your partner as well or better […]
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The top brass of a Los Angeles radio station told one of their popular program hosts if he wanted to keep people tuned-in, he should talk less and play more music. How did the chiefs know music was more important to listeners than talk? They learned it from the Arbitron® Portable People Meter, a cell […]
Continue readingBy Mary Lou Green | How to Stay in Love
In the last blogpost, Dennis wrote about how a golf game transformed our marriage, he described how my lost golf club, and an experience with a customer who had also lost a club, made him think about customer care. He wondered what it would be like if we applied customer service concepts to our marriage. In […]
Continue readingBy Dennis Green | How to Stay in Love
Years ago, Mary Lou and I were playing golf together. We stopped our cart near a hole, and when Mary Lou reached for the chipping wedge in her bag, she discovered she had left it on a previous hole. She was fairly new to golf, so my first thought was to let her backtrack and […]
Continue readingBy Dennis Green | How to Stay in Love
Two common reasons people say they cheat on their marriage are: 1. They don’t feel loved and: 2. They crave a taste of the excitement they felt when they first fell in love. So, what if the only person you ever want to cheat with–not on–was your partner? What would you give for that pleasure […]
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