Without doubt marriage – or any truly committed couple relationship – is one of the best vehicles we have for learning how to love and becoming a better person. My professional life is dedicated to helping those who embrace that view – partly because they have more than a fighting chance of succeeding and partly because I find joy in working with people who are willing to take responsibility for themselves.

My experience as a couples therapist and relationship coach is that far too many marriages and committed relationships fail because partners are too intent on getting love and too disinterested in giving it.

I want to use this blog as a vehicle for sharing what I know about loving behavior and for exploring the many ways in which a committed life with a partner can be an adventure – not just the burden that so many people find it to be.

I am also very interested in having an extended conversation here about every day love. We’re all told that you are supposed to love your partner, but how do you do it day in and day out? How do you live committed to your marriage or relationship and do so from a place of joy and abundance rather than duty and dull routine?

I think that I have the answer to these questions — if not the whole answer then enough to make the basis of a very interesting experiment in personal and spiritual growth. I am following that experiment myself, and I want to share what I am discovering with you — in this blog, in the weekly podcasts that my wife and I are doing at http://blogtalkradio.com/everydaylove and in the book, as soon as it is published.

I want this blog to be a dialogue, a conversation, a conference (a “meeting together”) of those who know something about relationships – namely you and I and all the other folks who drop by this site and have their own experience and wisdom to share, which is everybody who is or has been married or otherwise in a committed relationship. I want this site to be a place where we can help one another by sharing what we know and asking questions about what we don’t know.

Please join us.

David Sanford