Is an Amazing

Relationship

Possible for Me?

Learn to Bond

Many of the skills you need to be a happy, independent, single person are the opposite of those you need to be in a loving lifelong relationship, but how do you know that, unless someone tells you? We often find ourselves trying to preserve our independence within our relationship, or feel uncomfortable when our partner seeks closeness or seems to need us all the time. The latest findings in the field of interpersonal neurobiology tell us that it is only when we relinquish our independence and allow ourselves to be healthily dependent on our partner, that our bond can grow and deepen and our relationship thrive. Learning to bond will change everything.

Help Fulfil Your Partner's Dreams

If you want to make your relationship amazing today, begin by finding out what your partner's dreams are and supporting them to realise those dreams. This is the advice of Drs John & Julia Gottman who have studied more than 3000 couples, over 40 years.

Our programmes are based on the latest research and evidence to help you gain and develop the key skills you need to make your relationship deeper and more intimate than you ever imagined.

Learn to Say "yes, Yes, YES!"

The most striking feature that differentiates happy, stable relationships from those that struggle is that successful couples find many different ways to say "Yes" to one another, whereas miserable couples tend to say "No" more often. "Yes" can be expressed in a thousand different ways - through positive words or through a simple, affirming glance or gesture. Equally, "No" can be disguised as, "Not tonight." or "That's a stupid idea." or "You don't like that do you?" or "Do we have to listen to this rubbish?"

You Can Easily Change

If any of this sounds familiar, help is at hand. You and your partner can easily learn the partnership skills you need to make your relationship deeper and more intimate than you ever imagined.

We All Need Better Relationship Skills

In every relationship, when things get tough, we begin to wonder whether love has mysteriously vanished? We all set out with a hope or a wish of living happily ever after, but it's rare that we really focus on the relationship skills that make it possible. And because of this, many relationships fail. But you CAN have a lifetime of closeness, and the strength to get through any challenges together.

Investing time is the only way to make love thrive.

How we build friendship, affection, respect and intimacy, how we handle conflict and trust, make all the difference between happily-ever-after and a relationship fraught with pain and confusion. These things are not difficult to do, but they take time, persistence and partnership skills that many of us didn't learn as we were growing up.

Use the Challenges to Grow Closer

Rather than wishing away the inevitable challenges, wise couples embrace them as a way to grow as individuals, and deepen their love and understanding for one another. How do they do it?

Our programmes and relationship plans answer that question, by looking at the whole range of partnership skills we need to build a strong and happy relationship - by far the best investment you will ever make in your lifelong happiness.

Whether you're single or in a relationship, and whether things are pretty awful, or generally good and you'd like them to be even better, the research about what happy and successful couples do can help you have a relationship that's truly amazing. Ask yourself:

What do you really want to happen in your love life in the future?

What are the challenges you face when it comes to love?

How have you already tried to resolve your relationship challenges?

Could evidence-based coaching help you create the relationship you long for?

If you would like to create your dream relationship, our online coaching can help. Drop me a line Cathy@Licence2Love.com and we can make a plan that will take you step by step from where you are now to where you would like to be.

Relationship wisdom can rarely be found in the pages of magazines or self-help books, even respected therapists are often working on intuition, or hunches, rather than sound research. Licence to Love is grounded in the latest evidence from four decades of studies on thousands of happy couples, learning what really helps build loving, lasting relationships.