Can a relationship thrive when one component of this chemistry is missing?

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Toni Coleman, MSW is a licensed psychotherapist, relationship coach and founder of http://www.consum-mate.com. As a recognized expert, Toni has been quoted in many local and national publications including; The Chicago Tribune, The Orlando Sentinel, New York Daily News, Indianapolis Star and Newsweek newspapers and Family Circle, Woman's Day, Cosmo Style, Tango, Men's Health, Star (regularly quoted body language expert), People, and Nirvana magazines. She has been featured on abcnews.com, discovery.health.com, aolnews.com, MSN.com, Match.com and planetearthradio.com. Toni is also the featured relationship coach in “The Business And Practice Of Coaching,” (published by Norton, September 2005); and is the author of the forward for,” Winning Points With The Woman In Your Life, One Touchdown At A Time” ( published by Simon and Schuster, November 2005). Toni offers dating and relationship help and advice through her syndicated column, "Dear Dating Coach," and her popular monthly newsletter, "The Art of Intimacy." From March 2005 until December 2005, she was a weekly contributing commentator (love and dating coach) on the KTRS Radio Morning Show, (St. Louis, MO). Toni is a member of The International Coach Federation, The International Association of Coaches and The National Association of Social Workers.

Can a relationship thrive when one component of this chemistry is missing?

 

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Speaker: Can a relationship thrive when one component of this chemistry is missing?

Toni Coleman: Again, this is something that is going to depend a little bit on the couple. In other words, if you have a very, very strong friendship.

; if perhaps there is a strong physical chemistry, that maybe at times one of the partners is expressing that they are a little bit bored, that they are feeling like there isn't maybe enough excitement, there is just not challenge enough or stimulated enough. It might be that make the decision that the relationship is still overall working for me, so I am okay with the relationship. There is no such thing as perfect and certainly many couple say this. For another couple, that particular piece that's missing might be so important to them that they are finding them their mind drifting, they are looking around at other people, they are perhaps with a member of the opposite sex that they work with who is just turning their mind in that way and they are feeling this sort of emptiness with their partner. So it really depends on the couple and I would say that as long as you have some balance of all three or as long as both people in the relationship are okay with what you do have, it is usually good enough.

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