Lessons In Joyful Living

Join Kimberly as she speaks with Linda Carroll. As an author and veteran couples therapist, Linda Carroll explains that love is cyclical and comprised of five distinct stages: the Merge, Doubt and Denial, Disillusionment, Decision, and Wholehearted Loving. Her book "Love Cycles" explains that love's more challenging stages are part of genuine intimacy, rather than signs of its demise. The book explains that some may cycle through love's stages many times with one person over the course of a long life. Others may change partners along the way, either integrating what they've learned into each new relationship, or repeating painful patterns until they they've learned how to create the relationship they want.