Relationships
Couples Can Learn to Fight Fair
Many couples get caught up in arguing over the typical problems that plague relationships. The list of topics that couples “lock horns” over is actually quite short. Generally, couples feud over finances, household tasks, in-laws, parenting issues, and lack of trust. Conflict resolution takes work and patience.
Financial Feuds And Relationship Wreckage
One of the major presenting problems that couples bring to the counseling process is financial conflict. Many partners believe that if the issues of finances can be resolved, then their relationship will be restored. However, financial conflict in marriage is symptomatic of various underlying problems that warrant exploration.
Roots For Relationship Failure
Within any intimate relationship, there must be a balanced cycle of contact and withdrawal. This means that in relationships, there needs to be a flow between meaningful connectedness and the ability to provide each other with appropriate psychological space. Couples must learn to be self-sufficient and confident enough to move between emotional contact and the need for appropriate distance.
Establishing A Relationship On The Rebound
After a relationship has ended, many people quickly turn to new relationships as a means of reestablishing a sense of feeling centered. Often, feeling alone and abandoned, one may rush to fill the void by cultivating a new relationship on the rebound.
Patterns That Lead To Relationship Failure
Within any intimate relationship, there must be a balanced cycle of contact and withdrawal. This means that in relationships, there needs to be a flow between meaningful connectedness and the ability to provide each other with appropriate psychological space. Couples must learn to be self-sufficient and confident enough to move between emotional contact and the need for appropriate distance.
Empathy – A Key Relationship Skill
The basis of emotional closeness in a relationship is empathy, the foundation of the experience of “we” rather than just “I” or “you.” If you sense that your partner really feels how it is for you, you feel less stressed, plus closer and more trusting, and more inclined to give empathy to him – and the same is certainly true for him with regard to you.
When Will The Marriage End, After Divorce?
When a chapter closes in our lives, we must grieve the loss and let it go. This is true with divorce. It’s the finality of mourning “what could have been” that is painful. Nevertheless, the work of processing the reality of divorce, with all of its implications and consequences, must be confronted with courage and integrity.
Marriage Counseling
Couples go to marriage counselors for many reasons. Sometimes couples need help resolving issues that they can’t resolve on their own, and other times they just want to learn how to be more intimate. Marriage counseling is designed to address both minor and major issues experienced by married couples.