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June 15, 2014
Married with Baggage (or, When We Forget the Rules of Fight Club)
Married with Luggage is sometimes Married with Baggage as we bring the weight from our past into the arguments of the present. Even the positive stress of frequent travel and change for this International Love Affair book tour brings out some of our worst tendencies, and if we don’t keep them in check and follow […]
June 11, 2014
Episode 66: How to “Get Handled” (Advice for Strong Women + Nice Guys with Michele Lisenbury Christensen)
Episode 66 comes to you from the quaint village of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany. Today we’re talking about strong women and their nice guy partners. How do they learn to move toward the middle to get more pleasure and enjoyment in the relationship? If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t […]
June 8, 2014
How We Recenter Our Relationship When Things Get Out of Whack
Every relationship gets sidetracked by the busy-ness of life, ours included. And in those times when we’re feeling a little disconnected from each other… slightly run down by the pace… pulled in too many different directions… we know how to quickly recenter. We’re almost a month into the International Love Affair tour for our book, […]
June 4, 2014
What the “Ethical Slut” Can Teach You About Love (Episode #65 with Janet W. Hardy)
Episode 65 comes to you from historic Vienna, Austria. Today we’re talking about free love, polyamory, open relationships, and what you can learn from them even if you’re strictly monogamous. If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?” ~ Bette Midler Show Notes In this […]
June 1, 2014
What We Learned About Love in Florence, Italy
Florence lay before us in a palette of terra cotta and green. From the hills of Fiesole, we picked out the landmarks below: the Duomo, the Uffizi Museum, the Arno river. Birds sang, the sun was warm on our faces, and we were standing in the garden of a 600-year-old villa. The wisteria clinging to […]
May 28, 2014
How to Do a “Quickie” Relationship Audit (Episode #64 with Mish and Rob of Making it Anywhere)
Episode 64 comes to you from scenic Lucerne, Switzerland. Today we’re talking about how to have a quickie audit of your relationship if you aren’t quite ready for an all-out love contract negotiation. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” ~ Henry Ford Show Notes First we want to […]
May 25, 2014
What We Learned About Love in Provence
Editor’s Note: We started on this International Love Affair tour to celebrate the release of our fourth book, Married with Luggage: What We Learned About Love by Traveling the World. Subscribe to get the inside scoop of each destination in Europe (plus the behind-the-scenes stories that never makes it to this blog.) After a busy few days […]
May 21, 2014
Marrying Your Vacation Fling (Episode #63 with Linda and David of The Delicious Day)
Episode 63 comes to you from historic Florence, Italy. Today we’re chatting about what it’s like to turn that hot love affair from your vacation into a lifelong partnership. We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” ~ Ray Bradbury Have you ever imagined falling in love with an […]
May 18, 2014
What We Learned About Love in Valencia, Spain
Editor’s Note: We started on this International Love Affair tour to celebrate the release of our fourth book, Married with Luggage: What We Learned About Love by Traveling the World. Subscribe to get the inside scoop of each destination in Europe (plus the behind-the-scenes stories that never makes it to this blog.) We’ve become pros […]
May 14, 2014
Getting Our Love On in Europe (Podcast #62)
Episode 62 comes to you from romantic Valencia, Spain, the first stop on our International Love Affair tour. Today we’re talking about the itinerary, what we hope to discover, and why a commitment to romance with your partner is sexy as hell. My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I’ll […]
