Do you feel that you are losing that emotional intimacy in your relationship? It can happen so easily. Hopefully you get some warning signs before it is too late. Once you have children or are establishing your careers, it’s so easy to get very involved in your own life. You may have parallel lives, or ...
It is impossible to have a long-term relationship without getting into arguments at some point in time. The health or success of your relationship doesn’t depend on whether you argue or not, but how you argue and how you resolve conflict. This makes all the difference in settling your issue or letting it go. Sometimes ...
When someone gets angry with you or accuses you of something, your first instinct is to defend yourself. We want to protect ourselves, because clearly there has been a misinterpretation of our actions. Yet defensiveness is the worst way to clear up conflict. Reaction to defensiveness If the first thing you do is to defend ...
The emotional connection in a relationship is critical. The connection is what binds you together. Typically when people meet their partner, one thing they say is that it was so easy to talk to each other. They could talk for hours and hours. This connection helps you fall in love. After years of being together, ...
Avoiding conflict isn't good for relationships Some people think that their relationship is great because they are not fighting or avoiding conflict. Do you really think it is possible to live with someone long term and not get on each others nerves at some point in time? If you do, you may be in for ...
Your Communication Style My guess is that most people think they have a fairly healthy communication style. However, many of us also have trouble communicating at times. Or perhaps you don’t communicate in the most effective way. This is important as the way we communicate can either bring us closer to or further apart from ...
How to Work on Anger Management I know as a nation, we have been all over the place with all the unrest that has been occurring. Last week I focused on letting go of uncertainty and things we had no control over. This week I’m going to focus on anger management, as anger is another ...
With so much uncertainty and unrest in our nation, you may be feeling powerless, overwhelmed and upset. You may have trouble processing what is going on, where we are and how we got here. I thought it would be a good time to talk about ways to handle uncertainty, as we don’t know how things ...
While the holidays with family can be wonderful, they can also be very challenging. Some have a toxic family that is filled with chaos, especially when you get certain people together. Maybe you are the one who is the scapegoat or the butt of jokes. While some people may just laugh it off, it can ...
Common Relationship Pitfalls Are you struggling in your relationship? Perhaps you notice certain patterns when you argue. Maybe you feel that you are clear in expressing yourself, but your partner misinterprets you words. When couples come in to therapy there seems to be some common relationship pitfalls. Just know that if you see some of ...
