When we wrote our book Everybody Fights, So Why Not Get Better At It we talked about magic words in a relationship. There are phrases you can say during discussions or arguments that help bring down the temperature or help…
A couple of years ago, Penn and I took a long walk. It lasted about two hours, and I asked him all sorts of questions. But I began to notice something strange: He was doing a great job listening (which…
Historically, around the second week in January, I have a freakout. This has gotten so predictable that I had to get my 2025 calendar early so I could write the words “don’t freak out” right around now. See, we’ve been…