Coaching Corner

In a committed relationship or marriage,  their is going to be a cost associated with your career. In this chase to get ahead of specific bills, saving for retirement, saving for vacations or just saving for a rainy day there is a cost. The fee is time spent away from your partner and your focus on the relationship. When a person has a demanding job or extreme financial responsibilities it gets increasingly difficult to focus on anything else but making money.  No one ever considers at what cost though. Not until you start noticing a difference within your relationship. At that point when you have noticed a difference is when action needs to be taken to correct the imbalance in the relationship. Now what tends to happen is sometimes no action is taken because we assume that the imbalance is not a big deal and will eventually work itself out. WRONG!!! These situations very rarely work themselves out and the two people start becoming more distant with emotional/physical connection. If yo

Whenever two individuals enter into a relationship or marriage no one ever tells you that your connection with each other has to be maintained.  No one ever talks about why maintaining connection with each other on an emotional and physical is so critical. Everyone always talks about the things they want to do together, but no one every gets to the true meaning of why those things are important to the relationship. People say that the word love is a verb. People say that you choose who you want to love or give that love to, but love is fragile. Love fades just as quick as following in love with that special person can happen. So, when you talk about the goals of your relationship make sure to discuss how you as an individual will prioritize the connection both emotional and physical in your relationship. Life will not make prioritizing each other an easy thing on a daily or weekly basis.  That means you have to be intentional about each other and your relationship success.  To me that