Turkey Time Talk
Everyone realizes that Thanksgiving Day is an annual holiday set aside for family and friends to gather, play games, watch football, and feast together. I suggest that optimally, Thanksgiving also offers a special opportunity to reflect on and express what we’re deeply grateful for in our lives.
No surprise, couples feel more nurtured, supported, empowered, and closer with their partners when they regularly express gratitude and appreciation for each other. Marking out certain occasions for such substantive sharing tends to especially enhance your love relationship.
Here are some specific questions to share with your partner, family or friends, that I trust will enrich your Thanksgiving together and strengthen each of you individually, as a couple and as a family.
What are three qualities that you very much appreciate or admire about that person?
What really lights you up about him or her?
What are several ways that you feel particularly grateful about your relationship?
Hopefully, these questions will stimulate you and your mate (or others) to engage in further mutually-affirming conversation.
And personally speaking, Ruth and I would be very grateful if you would write a brief Facebook review of your experience of us and/or of our work.
If you’ve read our book, Secrets of a Soulful Marriage, we’d also really appreciate your posting a 1- to 2-sentence review of the book on Amazon. Just go here to leave a review.
Toward gratitude overflowing!
Your Relationship Coach,
Jim Sharon
(303) 796-7004
Jim Sharon, EdD is a licensed psychologist and couples' coach who has over four decades of professional experience serving thousands as a counselor, as a life and relationship coach, and as a seminar and retreat facilitator. Dr. Sharon has authored two books and many professional publications, most recently, Secrets of a Soulful Marriage: Creating and Sustaining a Loving, Sacred Relationship (with Ruth Sharon, MS), published by SkyLight Paths, 2014. Jim and Ruth have been married since 1970, have raised three adult children, and have two young granddaughters.