When you live with someone day in and day out it’s easy to become less aware of them and what they are doing. We easily become habituated to people who are there all the time. This is a good thing in that we’re not... The post Be More Aware Of Your Wife a

What does your wife usually do that you could do to help her out, show you love her, or just be kind? Do that now and then with one thing or several things. Or pick one thing to make your job all the time.... The post Let Me Take Off Your Plate appeared f

I don’t talk a lot about my life outside of my marriage or things which I can use to make a point about marriage. I figure it’s not why you’re here. But today will be all about me. If you want to know me... The post Loving My Life appeared first on The Ge

Helen Fisher’s third way of leveraging neurochemistry to maintain romantic love and form a deep attachment in long-term relationships is to have regular sex and other physical contact. These things increase levels of the hormone oxytocin.  Oxytocin has be

This is another post based on information from When Baby Makes Three, the 2011 State of Our Unions a report from the National Marriage Project. The report found that friends and family are a mixed bag, both helping and hurting marriages depending on their

Helen Fisher’s second way of leveraging neurochemistry to maintain romantic love and form a deep attachment in long-term relationships is saying nice things to each other. This reduces cortisol, which is sometimes called the stress hormone. Cortisol is an

I did some reading on anthropologist Helen Fisher for a post on The XY Code. Fisher has studied brain chemistry for decades, looking at how it affects our personalities and relationships. She says couples can improve their relationship by leveraging neuro

I find that some men think the phrase “physical intimacy” means sex, and only sex. For example, the fellow who said, “My wife wants to hug me, but rejects all physical intimacy.” Wikipedia has a good definition for this: Physical intimacy is sensual proxi

As Lori went through the whole diagnosis, investigation, and surgery associated with her uterus being a real bitch to her, I touched her a great deal. I touched her hand to comfort her when she was worried. Or I gave her a long hug.... The post Touch Is a

Lori and I have been taking a weekly Sabbath rest for eight and a half years. What that means is one day a week, Wednesday for us, we do no work. We check comments on our blogs, but otherwise, do no work on them.... The post What Sabbath Has Taught Me app