Coming to Grips with Marriage: “This is It??”
Many couples enter couples therapy struggling with the complaint that married life just isn’t what they expected. This can often be a product of fantasies about marriage, which can make even a good relationship seem disappointing when it doesn’t match up. As an example, the author writes about one couple client who entered couples therapy Read More…
Marriage Advice: Men and Women Have Different Approaches to ‘Working’ on a Relationship
Among the myriad differences between men and women that can make a marriage challenging, is the very difference in perspective between husbands and wives on marriage itself. Author Mark Gungor claims that women tend to view marriage as something dynamic, whereas men look at marriage as a safety zone, where they can relax and recuperate. Read More…
6 Signs Your Marriage is Rock Solid
Bad marriages are something that we hear about a lot, and something marriage websites and blogs, such as the one which published this article, often talk about. A constant negative attention on marriages doesn’t mean that all marriages are bad or doomed to fail, however. In fact, many marriages are actually really good, built from Read More…
Creating Intimate Conversations
In a newsletter about intimate conversations, Dr. Daniel B. Wile provided an example of two partners initiating an intimate conversation by confiding fears that they had been keeping to themselves, both worrying about being less important to their partner than their partner is to them. Someone asked Dr. Wile how an intimate conversation might still Read More…
CBMT Couples Therapy
Cognitive-Behavioral Marital Therapy (CBMT) is a type of therapy that seeks to help clients improve their relationships by teaching them to reduce conflict and change behaviors by addressing their cognitive, behavioral, and affective issues and teaching them to communicate more effectively about each issue. One strength of CBMT compared to other couple therapies is its Read More…
Going to Therapy Alone Can Help Your Marriage as Much as Couples Counseling
Kristen Chase has found herself going to personal therapy in addition to marriage counseling sporadically, usually for extra support during difficult times, but has noticed each time how helpful the additional personal therapy is in every aspect of her life, including marriage. One way in which personal therapy helped with marriage was being able to Read More…
What to Do if Your Spouse Has Depression
When one partner in a marriage is depressed, it can certainly take a toll on the other partner. Fortunately, there are things that can be done to help the non-depressed spouse understand the situation and in doing that help keep the marriage healthy. To begin with, it is important to not take the depression personally. Read More…
The Myth of Perfect Sex: Set Your Sex Life Free
As more information becomes available offering advice on what types of things provide great sex, people can get wrapped up in the idea of not just achieving great sex but of achieving perfect sex. Everyone wants to do a great or perfect job in the bedroom, but the unrealistic expectations created by the idea of Read More…
Romantic Options in the Modern World
Modern times have brought many changes, not the least of which is the way we experience intimate relationships and marriage. In the past, it was common to make compromises when selecting a marriage partner, perhaps for financial reasons. These days, there are so many feasible alternatives to our own situation that we begin to question Read More…
The Relationship Garden
Not unlike gardening, cultivating a relationship can require a constant vigilance in regards the negative thoughts that begin to sprout up in our minds about our partner. Oftentimes these thoughts go unnoticed for days or even weeks, and by then have taken on their own power and can distort even mundane interactions. Once our perspective Read More…
