Category: Relationships

Check out our latest guest blog, Great Expectations, for Innovation 360, a counseling center helping people recover from addiction through an innovative combination of therapy and life development activities.

As a kid, I was the “fat kid” who was teased quite a bit about her weight.  When people think about bullying, this is the type of thing that they often think of. However, bullying is an issue that is […]

Everyone, meet Jennifer.  She is a Licensed Professional Counseling Intern and the newest member of Ashenfelter & Associates.  We are so delighted to be working with her.  Read more about her on our website and enjoy her first blog on […]

So here we are, the final installment of our blog series on creating and maintaining intimacy in your marriage.  In this blog we are going to address the culmination of all of your hard work on creating intimacy with your […]

Last week we covered the keys to listening well, this week we are covering the other side of communication…talking (which by the way should be done less than listening). 🙂 When working to improve our communication it’s important to be […]

Our next two blogs focus will be on Improving Communication skills which will help with both emotional and physical intimacy.  Communication consists of two jobs, listening and talking.  For good communication that leads to deeper intimacy we need to do both […]

Check out our guest blog post on how to have difficult conversations. Tiffany will be speaking at the Polish Downtown event this Wed on how to set and maintain boundaries. You can RSVP here.

Last week we emphasized how our individual differences impact intimacy in our marriage and the need for open communication to come to common ground.  That’s all great when you’re talking about the small stuff, where should we eat tonight or how do […]

How has intimacy and dating changed since you’ve been married? Has DATE NIGHT!!!!  gone to date night… Has the Forbidden Fruit…gone to “Sure I can rally” If your intimacy and dating life hasn’t changed and has maintained itself at full […]

          Now I don’t know that Shakespeare actually said this but I do agree with sentiment. A common statement I’ve heard about divorce is that it is based on disagreements over either sex or money.  I […]