Welcome
Thank you for visiting Designing Hearts: the home of relational resources. This site focuses on marital relationships. Please visit the weekly updated blog where you will find messages on designing your heart and relationships in such a way as to create a flourishing relationship. A short monologue discussing each blog entry will also be provided in the form of a podcast for those who prefer to listen rather than to read.
Free Genogram Booklet
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Relational Resources
This book is based partially on doctoral research regarding emotional intimacy.
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Emotional intimacy is the fabric romantic relationships are made of. Emotional intimacy can and has to be created if a romantic relationship is going to be happy, healthy, fulfilling, and lasting.
This book is about:
- The gender differences regarding emotional intimcy
- What is incorrectly thought of to build emotional intimacy
- What really builds emotional intimacy
- What breaks down emotional intimacy
- Getting to the root causes of relational troubles
- How men and women interprets things differently
- The different needs of men and women regarding emotional intimacy
- Understanding temperaments and how it influences emotional intimacy
- Tools to develop more emotional intimacy
Future Resources
Research is underway for the writing and publication of:
- Safety within relationships
- Commitment
- Physical intimacy
- Changing our past to shape our future
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