Tension and conflict are inevitable aspects of every relationship. Believe it or not, you can have a good and a fair fight. Having a fair fight is necessary if you want to avoid bad feelings for a long time afterwards. The following may indicate...
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You’ve heard it a thousand times: “You shouldn’t have to change to be with someone.” Or should you? Well, let’s think about it. I think this is important, and perhaps the single-most misunderstood thing about successful...
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During a session with a high conflict couple, do you ever feel anxiety, frustration, sympathy for one partner? Do your clients trigger your sense of incompetence and insecurity? When you work with couples, they elicit feelings and thoughts are...
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A Relationship check-up is a way to prevent relationship problems. It consists of a once-a-year consultation with a couples counselor that can provide the same benefit that a physical health check or a dental check-up would provide. Relationship...
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Another couple has just left my office. They say that that they don’t like the fighting, and that their constant battling is affecting their sleep, their health, their work, and their children. They tell me they love each other, and that they...
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Things are very complicated up there. I will try to simplify a very complex system by saying that one way to understand brain structure is to think about it as having three sections: The higher brain, the middle brain, and the lower brain. If you...
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Around this time of the year, when people start thinking about the meaning of love, they usually have in mind only one kind of love, the kind that does not last. At the outset, romantic love is actually a temporary chemical imbalance that...
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The following 10 statements about what makes a good relationship are NOT true. But many people believe they are. What do you think? 1. If I left this relationship, I would find Mr. or Ms. Right Surely, there are couples that really don’t...
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Almost all couples say they want an equal relationship, but If I ask them what that means for them, the answers are often vague. How can an equal relationship be defined? How do couples know equality when they experience it? Evidence is mounting...
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Introduction Most of us didn’t learn about sexuality in an informative, straightforward way. Much of what is circulating in our culture about sex, intimacy and sexuality is based on myths, misinformation, porn use, or bad school sex education...
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(Based on the work of Pete Pearson and Ellyn Bader) Common mistakes we make when we disagree Relationships are a challenge.That is an understatement. They are a challenge because the opportunities to disagree are practically limitless. For a...
Read moreHow Can Couples Counseling Help Couples to Uncouple Well? In part I of Helping Couples Uncouple Well, I described how couples can design their future with creativity and an open mind. I described separation agreements, nesting agreements, and...
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