Passion 101

I’m letting my loyal blog readers know that new blog articles for the Passion 101 Community will be posted at the Passion Doctor Blogsite, which you can access when you click the link below: www.thepassiondoctor.com/blog I will continue to share my thoughts about passion, intimacy, romance and sexuality at www.thepassiondoctor.com, nothing is changing besides the change [...]

Can We Balance The Fighter and The Lover in Relationship? While assisting a recent Tantra workshop, I experienced the strong difference in my body between when I embody the Fighter or Warrior and when I embody the Lover archetype.  It was such a pronounced and uncomfortable  difference that I felt the need to write more [...]

Passion Tip: Hug Until Relaxed You probably won’t be surprised to learn that many of the couples I have worked with over the past twenty years have had sexual difficulties in their relationship.  When doing sex therapy, one simple exercise I have the couple do on our first session is both diagnostic to me as [...]

What are YOUR Relationship Resolutions? As the “Passion Doctor”, my work is to help couples have more romance, more passion, more sexuality and more intimacy in their live.  And around the time of the new year, the question of relationship resolutions is an important one to reflect upon. I’ve reviewed my previous Passion 101 blog [...]

Which Side Of The Bed Do YOU Sleep On? Who controls the “climate control” while you and your partner are driving?  Who’s in charge of the remote control while watching television?  Who decides where you sit while dining at home?  At a restaurant? I know that these all seem like trivial questions, yet they speak [...]

Do You Want To Be Right Or Be Happy In Your Relationship? Perhaps you’ve heard the question asked before, “Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?”  It applies in many contexts, though today we are talking about your relationship. Most couples that contact me for support are in the [...]

Do You Turn Toward, Turn Away Or Turn Against? Each day, our partners make many attempts to connect with us, both verbal and nonverbal. World renowned couples research, Dr. John Gottman calls these attempts “bids” for emotional connection. A bid can be a question, a look, an affectionate touch or anything else that opens the [...]

Can Men And Women Be Friends? Most of us have struggled with this issue, on whether men and women can be friends in a platonic way or will sex get in the way?  Can we “rise” above our impulses or is it a doomed idea?  AND, if we CAN be friends with someone of the [...]

What Is YOUR Love Language? I’ve been working with couples for twenty years and a big part of my work is to serve as a “translator” for the couple.  It often seems that they don’t speak each other’s language. The issue seems to be much more than the simple “men are from Mars, women are [...]

Ready To Reignite Your Relationship? It’s almost Valentine’s Day and while I’m not a big Hallmark kind of guy, I DO know that many of the couples that I counsel come to see me because they want to reignite their relationship and have more romance and passion in their lives.  And after 20 years of [...]