Maude Mayes's Blog: Secrets of a Successful Relationship Revealed, page 25

Choose Total Acceptance: It’s a Radical Way to Peace and Harmony

Total acceptance is the defining difference between not just experiencing better relating, but for a living peace that provides deep soul satisfying relationships. This is a radical concept, yet once understood, it can become a very natural way of being with another. Read more ›

Successful Relationships Reading Corner

This week, we said you should choose total acceptance: it’s a radical way to peace and harmony. Here are some other authors who are writing on the benefits of total acceptance.Read more ›

How Acceptance is the Best Path to a Peaceful Relationship

Recognizing someone else’s world is different is how you have a successful relationship. When you realize their life and desires are just as deep and valid as yours, then you realize that trying to change it would be just as unpleasant as if they started telling you what to do.Read more ›

Successful Relationships Reading Corner

This week, we wrote about how acceptance is the best path to a peaceful relationship. We were delighted to find a number of articles describing and expanding on this idea.Read more ›

Phil, Maude and ChatGPT Talk About Peace in Relationships

ChatGPT is a recent software project that is fed huge swaths of writing and (to simplify tremendously) responds based on what it has read. We asked it to “Write a blog on peace in the style of Phil and Maude” and also did the same ourselves.Read more ›

Successful Relationships Reading Corner

In our blog this week, we asked ChatGPT about peace in relationship, and added our own takes. Here are some other versions of peace in relationships.Read more ›

Add Gratitude to Being Positive and Watch Your Relationships Blossom

Notice all that you are grateful for in your intimate relationships: acknowledge it, speak it, feel it. They are the precious things of a life shared: the sound of someone’s voice, their big and small acts of service to you, what you learn from them.Read more ›

Successful Relationships Reading Corner

This week we wrote about adding gratitude to the underlying position of being positive. Here is a video and several articles that look at various aspects of this.Read more ›

How Can You Be Away and Still Be Present in Your Intimate Relationships?

Maude just went away to a women’s retreat, and on return, we talked about how easy a separation like that was; we retain the sense that we remain connected. We don’t feel distance when one of us goes somewhere, at least not as a sense of loss or something missing.Read more ›

Successful Relationships Reading Corner

This week, we wrote about how you can be away and still be present in your intimate relationships. Here are some articles that discuss different aspects of emotional connection in relationships.Read more ›