How Couples Can Reconnect Emotionally After Drifting Apart
Couples often drift apart over time. Work, parenting, financial stressors, and miscommunications contribute to emotional distance. Disconnection feels scary and sad. Couples counseling can help restore emotional and physical connections that have been strained and lost.
Why are Couples’ Routines so Important to Relationships?
Couples counseling helps couples ensure they have strong, healthy routines from the day-to-day to the not-so-often rituals we all need to be happy and function well. If you need help improving connection, predictability, and stability in your relationship, couples counseling can help you ensure your relationship is happy and healthy.
What is premarital counseling and how is it helpful?
Premarital counseling helps couples ensure they have strong, healthy foundations that stand the test of time and life stressors. If you're thinking about tying the knot, couples counseling can help you ensure your relationship is off to a solid start.
4 Styles of Communication and How They Impact Relationships
The 4 styles of communication that impact our relationships are: assertive, passive, passive-aggressive, and aggressive. It’s important to know what style you are and how it impacts your partner.
The 5 Stages of Grief in Divorce (Plus a New One).
Divorce follows the five stages of grief. Understanding the perspectives of the person initiating divorce, the partner being left, and the children is an important in a respectful divorce.
The 4 “Cancers” that Predict Relationship Failure.
Critical? Defensive? Struggling to stay engaged in arguments? Giving someone the cold-shoulder? Unable to self-soothe and find your self withdrawing? These “Four Horsemen” are cancers in relationships. Fortunately, they are fixable. Find out how to start spotting these in your relationship now.
What Makes Communication in Relationships so Difficult?
One reason communication breaks down is because of emotional hijackings. The emotional system perceives pain from something that was said or done, it turns on, and starts driving how we behave. The cycle of conflict begins.