Via Scoop.it – Two Are Better Than One
Keep Marriage Exciting – Exciting is a good thing for a marriage to keep. Is your marriage stimulating? If not… this post suggests that attention to intimacy built on trust and openness, fun together, joint interest, regular dates could make a difference.
Show original
Via Scoop.it – Two Are Better Than One
Peace Corps Education Volunteers Peter Hendricks, 26, and Alene Kennedy-Hendricks, 25, from Northern Virginia. They are currently serving in Georgia.
Show original
A Nigerian couple founded Intellipharmaceutics, a company that is now going public. Aside from raising five children together, this husband and wife team designed an innovative drug delivery system that is now making them millions.
Two musicians meet at a bus stop. She remembers she had seen him on a “from the top” performance. They marry and build a life that together
that is made in music. 
Life is stressful. Most couples in urban United States face time and energy battles. Schedules, information overload, bad news from Washington, famine in Somalia, shooting in Norway, parenting worries, work deadlines, and the nagging feeling that time is whirring by – and we cannot quite catch it enough to chill and think.
So, for some time for just that, Marcel and I decided to open a space of time for couples to talk with others and perhaps an opportunity for awareness-making. We wanted to call it something catchy and inviting. I like coffee so Java seemed good. While we were talking, Liam our 8-year-old son chimed in with “Java Junction”. That stuck and here we are. We’re offering you a Java Junction as a gift to your marriage.
We are absolutely sure that this type of time is needed. For couples to face the stresses together, they need time, and they need interaction so they can pull all the other necessary pieces of the relationship together. And with that can come great renewal, understanding, and much more.
Come. Join us – its free. And for those who live outside of Boston, stay tuned – we’ll be designing some virtual groups soon. Caveat – for those, you’ll have to pour your own coffee.
Imagine the recent Stanley Cup victors telling Coach Claude Julien that he would no longer be needed. Preposterous you think? Don’t all sports teams need a coach!
Yes, all sports teams do use a coach and here is why. The players are all about being the best they can be together. And they know they need help to reach that optimal performance.
Married couples do not appear to operate from the same paradigm. If they seek help, it is usually when the marriage is in trouble. Then the hope is for a professional to fix what is broken.
What would be p
ossible for a bride and groom if the Bruins’ paradigm was embraced? What could they experience and be if they strove for optimal performance together in the marriage and sought help to reach that potential?
For couples who decide to strive toward peak performance in the marriage and acknowledge the need for support, there exists a new kind of marriage help. Marriage coaching is on the rise – a special niche born of life coaching and an emerging trend toward collaborative and strengths-based interventions.
Marriage coaching offers couples partnership rather than answers. The coaching nurtures awareness of strengths and challenges. Through inquiry the couple learns how to observe situations without judgment – ultimately better poised to adapt and respond rather than react to circumstance or conflict. The coaching offers a safe supportive space to dialogue, to learn, and to test strategies or put on new attitudes. Along the path to change, the coach supports and nudges each partner to act upon the learning in ways that bring about transformation in the marriage.
“With the wind lifting the tent in which they’re trying to sleeping, Lorraine and Dan Bulger psych themselves up for the final trek to reach the top of Mount Kilimanjaro.
At this point – 4,600 metres above sea level, with 80-kilometre-per-hour winds whipping snow and freezing rain – the Cobourg couple appreciates the trip is even more of a mental challenge than a physical one.” Read more
Local marriage consultant and author of “The ADHD Effect on Marriage“, Melissa Orlov, is interviewed by Karen Weintraub for the Boston Globe. This article answers questions such as:
- How is ADHD missed during courtship?
- How does ADHD play a role in the marriage dynamic?
- What are the three legs of treatment for a couple with ADHD?
http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2010/11/22/married_with_adhd/
Follow me on the web!
