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Couples Bootcamp: What to Expect and How It Can Strengthen Your Relationship

Struggling with the same arguments, broken promises, or silent resentment can make even the strongest couples feel hopeless. Many couples don’t realize how quickly emotional distance and miscommunication can turn love into frustration. If you’ve been feeling stuck in unhealthy patterns with your partner, you’re not alone. That’s why I created the Couples Bootcamp to give partners a structured way

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Can a Relationship Survive Betrayal? The Truth About Healing After Infidelity

Infidelity shatters trust, leaving deep wounds that can’t simply be ignored or rushed past. The shock and pain may seem overwhelming, but understanding the steps toward recovery can turn chaos into clarity. You may wonder if your relationship will ever feel safe, loving, or whole again. These doubts are natural, but they don’t have to define your future. Many couples

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What’s The Difference Between Compromise And Settling In A Relationship?

Compromise and  Settling! Am I settling or making a compromise? I often hear this question from my counseling and coaching clients because they want to know the difference between settling and compromise. Settling In a relationship, when you betray yourself or allow others to betray who you are or your core beliefs, such as honesty, respect, reciprocity, and commitment, When

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Relationship tips to maintain closeness: DatingAdvice.com Interview

I was recently interviewed by DatingAdvice.com and was thrilled to be able share about my passion and relationship tips for helping couples maintain closeness. I hope you enjoy the article! Marriage Counselor Suntia Smith Inspires Individuals & Couples to Maintain Healthy Personal Relationships Suntia Smith used to work solely with women in her relationship coaching practice. She drew from her

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No, Relationship Advice Not to listen From Your Friends or Family. Here’s Why.

For some people, the world is one big support group and advice for good. They bring strangers, acquaintances and co-workers into their most personal challenges. Others are pickier, and they ask very close friends or family members to support them through their tough times. No matter who it is or how you select them, I am here to break it

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How Therapy Can Help You Break Free from Toxic Relationships Cycles

Toxic relationships cycles are happening again. Like it did the last time, and the time before. You continue to find yourself in the same frustrating, messy, heartbreaking spot as you always do. Relationship after relationship, it’s always the same: You end up hurt, unhappy or alone. You have suffered enough. It is time you take back your life from the

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Let’s Talk About Sex

There are times when stress and jobs and kids and mortgage payments suck the joy, the passion, the sexiness out of life. And out of your relationship. You fondly remember those years when sex and romance was just, well, natural. There was kissing, cuddling and make-out sessions that lasted hours. It felt like heat and flirtation radiated off you two.

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Forgive & Forge Ahead

We all make mistakes, and we all endure the mistakes of others. Carelessness, forgetfulness, callousness, selfishness, disrespectfulness — all the nesses. These are usually errors in judgment, accidental blunders, or misunderstandings. They can feel hurtful, cruel, and malicious for those on the receiving end. That’s why forgiving is so hard. And that’s why forgiving and forgetting is nearly impossible. Despite

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Make Your Love Last

Your relationship is pretty good. Make Love Last:  You still make each other laugh, cuddle, and feel loved. However, even in seemingly happy relationships, couples get stuck. Maybe it’s been a slow fade or a quick switch, but you and your partner are on two different pages (of two different books in two different languages), and no matter how hard

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