Phil and Maude on Successful Relationships
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How to Deal With Decisions and Disagreements in Your Relationship
There are multiple ways to solve a problem. Once you share the same values with someone, you can deal with decisions and disagreements without generating rancor, and by exploring, you can find a solut
How to Create Peace Instead of Conflict in Your Relationships
A close relationship is fundamentally different from others as it is built upon openness and honesty, both in sharing and accepting. This creates trust, which allows you to be more open, which creates
How To Deal With Differences In Your Relationships
For an enrichment of your relationships and a more joyous way of being together, ask yourself, What stops me from embracing differences? Why am I rejecting or trying to modify what seems different?
How Recognizing and Celebrating Uniqueness Helps Your Relationships
Understanding the quality of uniqueness holds a key for peaceful relating. There is only one of each person. That means that each of you has contributions and insights and ways of being to offer that
Why Are Core Values Important in All Your Relationships?
Your core values affect everything that you do and decide, including how you feel and respond to other people. Having matching or complementary core values with another person is necessary for a peace
The Five Fundamentals of Peaceful Relationships
For the last few weeks, we have been writing about subtle aspects of peaceful relationships. It is now time to describe the five principles for creating peaceful relationships, of which these subtle a
How to Create Peaceful Relationships by Balancing Your Differences
PHIL: I suggested that we write about the sense of equality between us, but Maude said that she sees equality as a measuring word, a counting up of who has done what, so she doesnt relate to it, and
How to Find Your Shared Reality and Create Peaceful Relationships
PHIL: We were talking about why we have a peaceful relationship and came up with the idea of a shared reality. This seems to fit what happens when we talk about us, about how we are. One of us will
How to Make a Better World Through Your Relationships
MAUDE: Recently a dear friend wrote to me describing an experience she was having with the people helping her repair her house after severe rain damage: I have enjoyed deeply spiritual experiences thi
Fearless Truth is One of the Important Threads of Any Peaceful Relationship
What are the threads of a peaceful relationship? They lie in the steadfastness of that connection. In every peaceful relationship, whether a friendship, relation, or a romantic one, there has to be bo