Understanding what Love REALLY is can help us avoid a power struggle, resistance or defensiveness. If you want to have a happy and loving relationship, Brett Williams says first know how to love yourself, give love, and achieve happiness.

Mr. Williams answers our biggest challenges in relationships. He gets honest and vulnerable about the positive and negative relationships that influenced him to rethink happiness.

In this powerful final episode of the season, you'll learn:

-What Love is and how to make it grow

-How to stop the power struggle

-The #1 rule for couples (because we all have bad days!)

-How to identify if you're codependent

-A husband's job

-Why the pursuit of happiness can make you very unhappy

-About Brett's nonprofit, Gathering of Good People (free online support groups)

-Brett's Big Picture: 3 Secret Ingredients That Makes Us Who We Are

Brett Williams, LMFT, is author to several books including: You Can Be Right Or You Can Be Married—Love Based Solutions for Couples, Xaler and the Dragon—Tools for the Fearful and Anxious Child. And a new book on the way, Rethinking Happiness.

If you—or someone you know—face some romantic struggles, listen to this now.

You can visit his website at: https://gatheringofgoodpeople.com

Leave or stay in a miserable relationship. Those are usually the only options that couples consider. But, there IS a Third Option, where you can create a happy and loving relationship. Ken Morris, Relationship Educator since 1993, teaches a class you can join any Tuesday through Zoom.

This class teaches 14 topics and meets every Tuesday night. Visit here to register now: https://ttofullerton.weebly.com

In this episode, we get into:

01:55 How Lucy & Alfred met Ken & Irma

02:26 Why Ken is passionate about helping couples

03:15 Ken & Irma's rocky time

05:45 Making Naomi guess some of the 14 topics of The Third Option

07:23 The full list of the 14 topics

10:40 Ken's favorite topic

12:54 Naomi shares her experience as a hair dresser

14:03 Ken puts himself in Naomi's shoes and speaks as if he were her

18:13 Ken shares his 3 most poignant relationships (make sure you have a tissue!)

28:55 Ken talks about men crying

31:26 Ken's Big Picture message to couples hurting with children

Have you seen safe, fun and healthy intimacy modeled to you? If you haven't, can you ever achieve safe intimacy? James and Kathy Flowers have taught couples from all walks of life—including from jail facilities—how to get an emotionally safe relationship even when it has never been modeled to you.

"Trust is a process where I can become vulnerable and you not hurt me," say the Flowers.

In this episode, they share:

-The definition of intimacy

-Why we desire to meet someone

-The 3 vulnerable questions we all ask a partner all the time in some way that require a YES!

-Their 3 poignant relationships

-The big picture that will have you consider "life is too precious to not have skills"