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You don't have to think your way through menopause. Your body already knows how to move through this, if you'll let it.Y...
09/02/2026

You don't have to think your way through menopause. Your body already knows how to move through this, if you'll let it.

Your mind will try to negotiate with a mood swing or figure out why you suddenly can't remember the word for the thing you use to open a jar.

None of that works because it’s not happening in your mind. This does:

The next time some waves rise in your body, like heat, rage, or grief that you can't explain, stop trying to think your way out of it.

Put a hand on your chest, take one long breath out through your mouth, and let the wave move through you instead of around you. Then do it again and again until you feel it move.

Try it and tell me what you notice.

His chemicals deplete within a few days, so he's ready again fairly quickly. Hers last for weeks, sometimes an entire mo...
09/01/2026

His chemicals deplete within a few days, so he's ready again fairly quickly. Hers last for weeks, sometimes an entire month.

This is a matter of biology and somehow it turned into a full-blown gender war.

When he's reaching for her again and she's not there yet, nobody's wrong. You're just running on two completely different timelines.

Where have you seen this play out in your own relationship?

Testosterone is one of the biggest pieces of this entire puzzle, and modern culture is writing it off.She pushed for blo...
08/31/2026

Testosterone is one of the biggest pieces of this entire puzzle, and modern culture is writing it off.

She pushed for bloodwork. Once it confirmed how low her testosterone actually was, she finally got the shot. Within hours of it, not days, she felt like herself again.

Sleeping through the night with no hot flashes and real energy that lasted a full week, right up until her next dose was due.

You deserve to walk into this transition informed, not blindsided like I was in the beginning, when I just thought my body was betraying me.

Have any of your doctors talked to you about your testosterone?

Today is the day.Laurie and I go live today at 4 PM Eastern / 1 PM Pacific with Relationship Rescue: How to Stop the Dri...
08/30/2026

Today is the day.

Laurie and I go live today at 4 PM Eastern / 1 PM Pacific with Relationship Rescue: How to Stop the Drift When Love Falls Apart.
Ninety minutes.
Practical from the beginning.

Our goal is for you to leave with language and practices you can actually use in your relationship tonight, not simply ideas that sounded good while you were watching.

We are going to talk about where drift begins, why two people who still love each other can slowly stop feeling connected, how to interrupt escalation without ending connection, and how simple rituals can help keep a relationship alive inside a very real life with very real schedules.

If you cannot attend live, everyone who registers receives the replay.

Bring your partner if they are willing. Come by yourself if they are not.

We have watched relationships begin to change because one person learned something useful and brought it home.

We go live today at 4 PM Eastern / 1 PM Pacific.
Come sit with us.

Register free: webclass.extraordinarylovers.com

From Laurie:I want to talk to the one who has been carrying this by herself.You have been the one noticing.The one bring...
08/29/2026

From Laurie:

I want to talk to the one who has been carrying this by herself.
You have been the one noticing.
The one bringing it up.
The one choosing the moment carefully, watching it land badly, and then deciding to wait a little longer before trying again.
You have read the books.
You have suggested the conversation.
You may even have wondered whether wanting more from your marriage makes you difficult.
It does not.
It makes you the one who is still paying attention.

Here is something Michael and I have seen again and again.
The partner who resists the conversation is often not resisting love.
He may be resisting the experience of being told that he is the problem, particularly when some part of him already suspects he has failed and has no idea what to do next.
Practical tools can change that dynamic.
Give someone something they can do, rather than simply another reason to feel inadequate, and a different conversation becomes possible.

That is what tomorrow is about.
Ninety minutes.
Practical.
Nothing to confess.
Nothing to process in front of strangers.

Relationship Rescue: How to Stop the Drift When Love Falls Apart
Sunday, August 30
4 PM Eastern / 1 PM Pacific

Bring your partner if they are willing.
Come by yourself if they are not.
Both work.

Register free: webclass.extraordinarylovers.com

Laurie and I have watched this pattern in the room for years, and the thing that still surprises us is how ordinary it l...
08/28/2026

Laurie and I have watched this pattern in the room for years, and the thing that still surprises us is how ordinary it looks from the inside.

Not one of these five signs is particularly dramatic.
That is exactly why they are so easy to miss.
A crisis gets your attention.
Drift rarely asks for any.

You edit yourself because bringing it up feels exhausting.
Logistics slowly replace conversation.
The same argument develops a rerun schedule.
Affection becomes less spontaneous.
And eventually both people become very skilled at saying they are “fine.”

None of these automatically means your relationship is broken.
They mean something deserves your attention.

If you moved through this carousel and recognized three or more, give your relationship 90 minutes this Sunday.

Laurie and I will show you where the drift begins and give you practical ways to interrupt it before distance becomes the new normal.

Relationship Rescue: How to Stop the Drift When Love Falls Apart
Sunday, August 30
4 PM Eastern / 1 PM Pacific

Register free: webclass.extraordinarylovers.com

08/27/2026

Honest pl3asure lingers because it has room to breathe, and it's a state you get to live in.

We've been so touch-starved and shut down that we're walking around angry and calling it normal.

What are you actually angry about?

08/27/2026

Nobody needs another reminder to “communicate better.”

That advice is not very useful at 9 PM on a Tuesday when the room has gone cold and neither person knows how to cross it.
What helps is having the words already in your mouth before you need them.

Here is one we teach and one we use in our own relationship:
“Let’s pause and come back together in a little while.”

That sentence does something important.
It interrupts escalation without ending the connection.
It is not walking away.
It is a promise to return, spoken out loud, so your partner does not have to wonder whether you are abandoning the conversation or abandoning them.

Knowing how to pause is a relationship skill.
Knowing how to return is an even bigger one.

Laurie and I are teaching more of these practical tools Sunday, August 30, during Relationship Rescue: How to Stop the Drift
When Love Falls Apart.
4 PM Eastern / 1 PM Pacific
90 minutes live online

Bring your partner if they will come. Come alone if they will not. Both work.
Register free: webclass.extraordinarylovers.com

We had a couple come to one of our experiences after forty years of marriage.He had just retired. They had just moved to...
08/26/2026

We had a couple come to one of our experiences after forty years of marriage.

He had just retired. They had just moved to a new state. She told us she had spent years imagining that retirement would finally give them time together.

What she got instead was two people sharing a house and almost nothing else.

They still loved each other.
They just could not find each other anymore.
That is what drift looks like.

It is almost never one big fight. It is the slow accumulation of ordinary days where nobody necessarily did anything wrong.

The conversations get shorter.
Touch becomes less frequent.
The things you used to tell each other start staying inside.
From the outside, everything may still look intact.

Sunday, August 30, Laurie and I are teaching Relationship Rescue: How to Stop the Drift When Love Falls Apart.

For 90 minutes, we are going to show you some of the quiet places where connection begins to disappear and give you practical ways to start finding each other again.

The drift does not announce itself.
It just waits to see whether anyone is going to name it.

Sunday, August 30
4 PM Eastern / 1 PM Pacific

Bring your partner if they will come. Come alone if they will not. Both work.

Register free: webclass.extraordinarylovers.com
Michael & Laurie

Somebody decided there’s a cutoff date for when a body is allowed to be sexy. Nobody consulted me or the people I know w...
08/25/2026

Somebody decided there’s a cutoff date for when a body is allowed to be sexy.

Nobody consulted me or the people I know who are wildly, unapologetically alive in their bodies, wrinkles and all.

S*xiness is attached to how much you're willing to inhabit yourself, and that’s a muscle you get to keep building for as long as you’re here.

Send this to someone who needs this reminder.

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