5 Overlooked Qualities of The Best Romantic Partners

I have a close friend who is a very successful businessman. Years ago he gave me a piece of advice that I’ll never forget: If you want to be successful in business, you should NOT pursue the glamorous things. At first, this confused me. He, like many of us, enjoys the finer things in life…

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A Good Husband’s Vows: 12 Promises for an Unbreakable Marriage

We’re all used to the traditional marriage vows we’ve heard a million times: “In sickness and in health,” “For richer or poorer,” “‘Til death do us part.” While integral pieces of the matrimonial foundation, I believe there are far more nuanced and often unspoken promises that spouses make to each other. Marriage is not the…

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20 Things You Deserve in Your Love Life

It’s hard to define what you deserve in life and in love. It requires a strong sense of self-worth, high standards, and solid boundaries. Those might be difficult for you to get clear on if you’ve not really dug into your wants, needs, desires, and identity. What is it that you really deserve from a…

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How to Tell if Someone Truly Deserves Your Love

The truth of life and love is that many people along the way will desire you. They’ll desire to be in your presence, desire to get to know you, desire you based on physical attraction, and desire your affection in return. They won’t, all, however…deserve you. Before we dive into this discussion, I need to…

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These 15 Conversations Will Decide Your Future as a Couple

I’ve noticed a trend lately in conversations with my private clients, their relationships split apart because they overlooked or ignored red flags or incompatibilities early on in their relationships. I have long made the point that the small things we overlook in the beginning of a relationship are very often the exact things that come…

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30 Simple Ways to Become an Amazing Romantic Partner

What does it mean to be a “good partner”? Whether you are a husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, partner, spouse, significant other, or [enter term of choice here], most of the same principles apply. It comes down to the simple things. The ways that we listen, pay attention to detail, remember important things, and make the…

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15 Duties of All Good Men in Relationships

If there’s one thing that guys usually hate, it’s being told what to do. Many will resist and rebel just for the sake of pushing back against authority, even if that “authority” is their own personal decisions. What I mean by this : Sometimes, you make a choice that comes along with a set of guidelines,…

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Your Relationship Should Meet These 15 Needs

There is a big difference between “wants” and “needs” that often go overlooked when determining what is best for us in a relationship. A ‘want’ is something that, well…we want. There is, however, a deeper and more fundamental need that we are seeking to have filled by that “want.” In other words: The want is…

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You Need More Than Love: 12 Signs of Real Compatibility

What is it that makes two good people good for each other? The idea of compatibility is, for some strange reason, often overlooked when it comes to choosing a romantic partner. I believe we easily get caught up in the excitement of adventure, or the emotional rush of being with a new person, or the…

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When You Find A Woman With These Qualities – Marry Her

(Photo: Rachel Sama and James Michael Sama) We are all looking for something different when it comes to a partner — especially someone we’ll consider spending the rest of our life with. I do think, though, that there are some universal qualities that men desire in the woman who they love more than the idea of being…

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