Monthly Archives: November 2009

Bonding or Breaking through the Holiday Season?

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Filed under Spending Time Together

Okay. Thanksgiving is for family and friends and bonding. Well how is your relationship with your closest friend, your partner, your life mate holding up during this Thanksgiving Holiday with family and friends?

I recall years ago when my boyfriend first came over to my Mom’s house to meet the family all together for Thanksgiving. I think he later said something about the calendar being messed up as he felt like it was trick or treat! How about sharing a story from this year or one in the past about how your relationship survived or didn’t during the family and friends bonding experience of the Thanksgiving Holiday.

Building Together A Relationship Filled With Love, Health & Wealth,

Relationship Advice

Dr. Patty Ann
www.relationshiptoolbox.com

Thanksgiving Recipes!

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Filed under Spending Time Together

What is Thanksgiving without a favorite recipe! So many people have a favorite recipe either of their own, handed down from family or from Rachael Ray.

My favorite recipe is 1 – 800 – TAKE - OUT. I will share my strategy on Facebook over the weekend. So tell me what is your favorite Thanksgiving recipe and where did you get it from.

Building Together A Relationship Filled With Love, Health & Wealth,

Relationship Advice

Dr. Patty Ann
www.relationshiptoolbox.com

Passed Down Thanksgiving Traditions

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Filed under Spending Time Together

Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Many families have Thanksgiving traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation. Other families just celebrate the joy of spending time with people they love.

Share with us any traditions your family enjoys for Thanksgiving. Do you know where and how these traditions started? Or are you hoping to start a new Thanksgiving tradition this year? If so, what would it be?

Building Together A Relationship Filled With Love, Health & Wealth,

Relationship Advice

Dr. Patty Ann
www.relationshiptoolbox.com

Hard Times to Forgive Your Partner

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Filed under Arguments, Commitment, Communication

This week’s relationship advice ezine talks forgiveness. As you probably already know, the much anticipated movie “New Moon” is coming out in a theatre near you. If you are a fan of The Twilight Series, you know that so much forgiveness is required of the characters for the hurt and pain caused by them, and to them, in their never-ending search for love.

Share with us a time when you were asked to forgive your partner. Tell us how you were able to find a way to forgive them, even though it might have been very difficult for you to do this?

Building Together A Relationship Filled With Love, Health & Wealth,

Relationship Advice

Dr. Patty Ann
www.relationshiptoolbox.com

How Will Your Relationship Survive The Holiday Season?

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Filed under Happiness, Spending Time Together

The holidays are just around the corner. And although it is such a festive, wonderful time of the year, many relationships become very strained and stressed because there is so much more to do and no more time available to do it all.

What ways have you and your partner found to keep the stress at bay during the holidays and actually find time to truly enjoy each other’s company? If you haven’t been able to do this, what gets in your way?

Building Together A Relationship Filled With Love, Health & Wealth,

Relationship Advice

Dr. Patty Ann
www.relationshiptoolbox.com

Keeping Intimacy Alive

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Filed under Intimacy, Intimate Relationship

This week relationship advice ezine talked about how emotional intimacy and sexual intimacy go hand in hand in a happy healthy relationship. We really can’t have one without the other.

Isn’t it amazing how life sometimes gets in the way of taking care of your relationship. Share with us how you keep intimacy alive in your relationship. And what are your most difficult challenges in doing this?

Building Together A Relationship Filled With Love, Health & Wealth,

Relationship Advice

Dr. Patty Ann
www.relationshiptoolbox.com

Is Monogamy for a Lifetime?

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Filed under Goals, Modern Day Relationships, Surviving Infidelity

The media seems to be exploding about stories dealing with infidelity; David Letterman, Stephen Phillips, Jon & Kate (ugh!) and the celebrity list goes on and on.

All the media focus on infidelity leads one to wonder, is monogamy for a lifetime a realistic goal for our relationships or should we re-think this whole concept and replace it with serial monogamy, i.e, a series of long-term committed relationships throughout our lifetime? Please weigh in on this current date.

Building Together A Relationship Filled With Love, Health & Wealth,

Relationship Advice

Dr. Patty Ann
www.relationshiptoolbox.com

Falling Into Relationship Ruts

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Filed under Commitment, Increase Romance

Relationships are fun in the beginning and new romance requires very little effort. But as we read about in this week’s relationship advice ezine, it is easy to fall into a rut with the passage of time.

All relationships have to be careful about not falling into a rut. Share with us some ways you and your partner have either avoided getting into a relationship rut or gotten out of one.

Building Together A Relationship Filled With Love, Health & Wealth,

Relationship Advice

Dr. Patty Ann
www.relationshiptoolbox.com