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Video – Six Core Human Needs in Relationships: Admiration

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“Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.” ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis As always…unscripted, unedited, authentic, real and from our heart to yours…to get to the heart of the matter…to transform your relationship! Best! Joe and Savannah! This Video is on Admiration: Meeting the […]

The Couple Bubble 

the couple bubble

  The couple bubble is a pact between partners in which the quid-pro-quo is to burden one another with the tasks of devotion and caring for the other’s safety, security, and well-being. This mutual burden determines the degree of shared gratitude and valuation you both can experience. If you think about it, when the going […]

The Elements of Equality

“There’s a widely held belief that to be loved you have to abandon power, and vice versa,” says Adam Kahane, author of Power and Love. “Then you choose a partner who provides the missing function.” In fact, when expressed separately, love and power degenerate, he argues. Lack of love turns power into unconstrained self-interest; lack […]

How to Help Other People Change Their Habits

Three pointers on helping someone else change their habits. Having written a book on how to change your own habits, in interviews I was often asked: how can I change another person’s habits? Say I want my partner to stop cracking his knuckles or get my daughter to put down her mobile phone at meal times […]

How to Break Free from Pornography Addiction

Pornography Addiction

I WOULD FAP out of boredom, sometimes even at work in the bathrooms. I was addicted, pathetic… Anon22 discovered Internet porn when he was just 12 years old. Looking back, he recalls it clearly. “I was unable to look away. I remember everything about that first moment. The music that was playing, where my parents were […]

Interview with LA Talk Radio:The Mother Love Show

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Savannah Ellis & Joe Whitcomb Talk about their passion for helping couples and individuals heal from hurting relationship on L.A’s Mother Love Show   Listen to Savannah & Joe on the Mother Love Show Here WATCH: Joe Whitcomb gives a quick shout out after the show.      

Watch a movie and talk: Can This Simple Exercise Help Save a Marriage?

The study, involving 174 couples, is the first long-term investigation to compare different types of early marriage intervention programs. The findings show that an inexpensive, fun, and relatively simple movie-and-talk approach can be just as effective as other more intensive therapist-led methods—reducing the divorce or separation rate from 24 to 11 percent after three years.