Your “Family of Origin” in Relationship
Your “family of origin” is the family in which you were raised, and it can have a significant influence on your romantic relationships.
First Responders Three Common Relationship Issues
There are three common issues first responders and their partners can focus on to help strengthen their relationships. Communication, Boundaries and Support.
Mastering Effective Communication with Your Partner
Effective communication is a crucial aspect of fostering a healthy relationship. Understand your own communication style and change negative patterns.
Ready to Work on Improving Your Relationship?
At some point, every romantic relationship could use some work. Learn to create the best plan for moving towards a better relationship.
Am I Too Sensitive, or Is My Partner Uncaring?
We invest our entire lives into our relationships, which can drive our emotions high when we feel our partner is uncaring. Any amount of sensitivity that we possess can go into overload status when we feel frustrated, hurt, ignored, or invalidated. There are many reasons why a partner may perceive an imbalance with their partner in their levels of feelings and shared empathy in a relationship, and there is no one-size-fits-all answer.
What Are the Non-Negotiables for Your Relationship?
Compromise is always important to a healthy relationship. But what happens when compromise feels wrong, and you no longer want to negotiate? What are the non-negotiables for your relationship, and how do you talk to your partner about them?
My Partner Has Stopped Meeting My Needs
Most healthy relationships include five core elements: open communication, equal power, having your own lives outside of the relationship, trust and honesty, resolving conflict respectfully, and emotional intimacy. When one partner withdraws emotionally or physically from a relationship, a chasm is created that works against open communication, trust and honesty, and (especially) emotional intimacy. This dysfunction can be difficult to understand and leaves the partner who feels left alone confused and unsettled – and pining for an answer.
Does Marriage Have to Be Hard?
There are literally endless reasons why a marriage or a long-term relationship can feel difficult, for example, poor conflict navigation, lack of work/life balance, infidelity, and waning intimacy. Studies indicate that stressful life transitions, such as having children, moving to a different home, job loss or change, and major illness or injury, can lead to a decline in how partners feel about their relationship, and this can make maintaining a relationship feel much harder.
Does a Midlife Crisis Lead to Divorce?
Cartoons often depict middle-aged people amid a midlife crisis indulging in out-of-character purchases and activities – red sports cars, motorcycles, skydiving, and dressing like teenagers, with a spouse at their side wondering, “What is going on? Who is this person that I no longer know? Are we heading to divorce court?” Setting those images aside, a midlife crisis involves much more than acting like a person who is twenty+ years younger, and it does not always lead to separation in a marriage.
Episode 11: Should I Continue With a Therapist When We Disagree on Certain Ideas?
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Good Help is Hard to Find – The Therapist Shortage Continues With the shortage of therapists still going on, a lot of people are having a really hard time finding the right therapist to work with them, or with finding anyone at all. Sometimes you might have a therapist who has less experience than you’d […]
