Couples & Relationships

Love doesn’t always overcome. Not when your partner is on a crash course for self-destruction. Not when your relationship shines a spotlight onto the worst version of yourself. Not when deep hurt turns into irreconcilable bitterness. ...

The new millennium has brought more than just hashtags and wireless headphones. With it, entirely new social structures are continually being created and explored. Non-traditional relationships are becoming not only more common, but more ...

Many couples who contemplate marriage choose pre-marital counseling to ensure that they get off on the right foot. Marriage is tough; why not get a professional’s input right from the beginning? Even the healthiest couples will conflict ...

Blended families can include step-families, multigenerational families, adoptive and foster families, and more. With approximately 45% of all U.S. marriages ending in divorce, blended family counseling has become a necessary tool for ...

What’s the difference between being a nice, thoughtful person and a codependent person? Motivation, primarily. Motivation is the cut-off point—particularly in the context of social, romantic, and family relationships. Simply put, ...

Anger is an emotion that produces many complex behaviors. It can result in silence, passive-aggressiveness, verbal violence, or physical violence. When a person struggles to regulate their anger, it can be incredibly damaging for ...

Sometimes the family photos look perfect, but the reality is far from paradise. Underneath can be anxiety, stress, anger, frustration, misunderstanding, a lack of trust, or something else entirely. In other words, you’re just like many ...

One of the most common questions clients ask in sex therapy is—drumroll—“Am I normal?” But compared to what? And to whom? Our preferences and our desires are varied. Everybody is different! A more useful question might be “what do I want ...

Couples counseling has an average success rate of 70%, yet only half of couples in distress seek counseling. Fear of failure, fear of being shamed, feeling that a relationship’s problems are too big to address or small enough to handle on ...

When the conflict is out of control, when the sex has died, when the loneliness becomes unbearable, when you start asking yourself what life would be like if you were alone or with someone else, it’s time to seek last ditch marriage ...

Infidelity is a breach of trust between two people in a committed relationship. It is more than an affair; it also encompasses emotional attachment with another person, online relationships or pornography, amassing hidden debt, or even ...

Intimacy occurs within a relationship when people share their thoughts, feelings, and experiences in order to feel closer to one another. Intimacy creates trust, acceptance, validation, and a mutual giving and receiving of emotional ...