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b'Mali Apple and Joe Dunn are authors, relationship coaches, lovers, and best friends. \\nTheir bestselling books \\u201cThe Soulmate Experience: A Practical Guide to Creating Extraordinary Relationships\\u201d and \\u201cThe Soulmate Lover: A Guide to Passionate and Lasting Love, Sex, and Intimacy\\u201d have helped thousands of people around the world create and sustain relationships that are deeply connected on all levels emotionally, intellectually, sexually, and spiritually. \\nFrom connecting with your sexual energy to using sexual healing to transform intimacy issues into heart-opening erotic pleasure, Mali and Joe share truly revolutionary ideas for creating relationships that are deeply loving, intensely passionate, and profoundly sexually connected.\\nGuiding Principle, Quote or Mantra\\nAcceptance.\\xa0 Acceptance of not only themselves but also of their partner.\\xa0 And whoever they are at that moment.\\nWhen they get off track they ask themselves \\u201cCan I accept this person exactly as who they are?\\u201d\\xa0 And the answer is always Yes.\\nAnd \\u201cCan I accept whatever is coming up between us in this moment?\\u201d \\nThese two questions make living so much easier.\\nAccepting that something is an issue for your partner when it wouldn\\u2019t be for you, opens the space for them to hear what you say without feeling like you need them to take your advice.\\nWhen You Tripped Up \\nMali never told this story before \\u2013 \\nIn her previous marriage Mali and her Was-band had an agreement that they could flirt with people and they were both cool with it.\\nOne day Mali was flirting with a person and she got the feeling her then husband would not be cool with it so she didn\\u2019t tell him.\\xa0\\nFrom that moment and from that day forward her relationship changed inalterably because she held something back.\\xa0 And the fact that she didn\\u2019t share this with him made it much bigger than it really was.\\nThe distance it caused was palpable to her husband even though he didn\\u2019t know what it was about. \\nIt really was the beginning of the end of their marriage.\\nJoe \\u2013 \\nJoe\\u2019s first long term relationship was with a woman who was not a happy person.\\xa0 And Joe\\u2019s big trip up was thinking he could change his partner.\\nHe is a happy and optimistic guy and all he had to do was be around her and some of that would rub off.\\xa0 But that wasn\\u2019t the case.\\nThe \\u201cDUH\\u201d moment that changed your partnerships forever\\nJoe \\u2013 It took Joe nearly 20 years to realize he can\\u2019t change his partner.\\xa0 And this turned into acceptance of who his partner was.\\nThis created space for Joe to see her for who she was.\\nSo all of the energy he had spent resisting who his partner was, was now gone.\\xa0 And this gave him the space in which he could meet Mali.\\nMali \\u2013 In her first marriage she realized the relationship had run its course.\\xa0 And trying to hold on to it and trying to make her partner change was futile.\\nHer \\u201cDUH\\u201d moment was when she realized that her Was-band was not interested in going the way she wanted to go in life, and she had been dragging him along for years.\\nWhen she realized this and had a heart to heart talk with him they realized this was true and that their relationship had run its course and they were ready to move on.\\nIt was time to change their involvement and continue to support each other in their next steps.\\nProudest moment in partnership \\nMali and Joe agree that their relationship is their proudest moment.\\xa0 Both with each other and with their kids.\\nIt is exciting because they never know what is next.\\xa0 They are always moving into the realm that is a little bit uncomfortable. \\nThey call it playing leap frog.\\xa0 This way they support each other in growing both individually and together. \\nCurrent Partnership that Has You Excited\\nTheir daughter just got accepted to Yale.'