Michelle Marchant Johnson the support you receive when you ask

Published: May 18, 2016, noon

b'Michelle Marchant Johnson is a relationship coach, speaker and author.\\xa0\\nIn her business, LoveLifeCoaching.com she specializes in helping women learn how to express their feminine joy, energy and presence and how to invite interaction, attraction, and commitment from a man.\\nHer articles have been featured on many internet sites and she was recognized by DatingAdvice.com as one of the Top Ten Midlife Relationship Experts.\\xa0\\nShe is currently writing a book entitled \\u201cMeet Him and Keep Him.\\u201d\\xa0 She is the host of the Ready for the Right Guy Global Telesummit\\xa0 and co-creator of a proprietary system for single women called How to Meet a Great Guy.\\nMichelle is also an advanced stage breast cancer survivor who believes life is precious and is meant to be lived with purpose, love, and joy.\\nGuiding Principle, Quote or Mantra\\n\\u201cYour task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.\\u201d \\u2013 Rumi \\nWhen You Tripped Up \\nWhen Michelle became a first-time bride at 43 she realized both she and her husband had been living very individual lives for a long time.\\xa0\\nHer trip up was when she let her expectations go unspoken and then got upset at him because he did not pick up on what her expectations were and address them.\\n\\u201cI created my own personal drama.\\u201d\\nWhat she learned is that her husband is actually very willing to help her in almost every case if she expresses her wants or needs to him in a way that he can respond.\\n(These are some great stories I am sure you will relate to no matter if you are a man or a woman.)\\nThe \\u201cDUH\\u201d moment that changed your partnerships forever\\nMichelle had a \\u201cDUH\\u201d moment one Christmas day when she went out to shovel snow from the driveway because her husband had not done it yet, even though he said he would.\\nHer ah-ha was that it is not only what she does in her partnership, but also the intention behind it.\\xa0 And considering how that intention might come across to her partner.\\nShe learned that it is very important be honest with herself about her intentions and to communicate them to her partner.\\nProudest moment in partnership \\nMichelle was diagnosed with Breast Cancer 4 years ago.\\xa0 And she felt like she was loosing all of her femininity.\\nWhile she was always a very strong and independent woman, she was in a place where she needed support.\\nShe learned how to be in touch with her needs and desires and how to express and ask for what she wanted in a more powerful way.\\xa0\\nBeing receptive to this support allowed her develop and deepen friendships like never before.\\nWhat is the best partnership / relationship advice you have ever received?\\nSeek first to understand and then to be understood.\\nBest Partnership Book or Resource\\n\\nThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change\\n\\nThe Art and Practice of Loving: Living a Heartfelt Yes\\nPayoff of Partnership \\u2013 \\nMichelle knew she wanted to start her coaching business and when she got up the ...'