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Marriage Is Destroyed by Emotional Distance, Not Conflict
We all search for love, support, and care in our relationships. Whether you want to enrich a healthy relationship, refresh the one that started feeling like a roommate marriage, or to rescue a dying one, there is one thing to keep in mind: it is emotional distance —...
Feeling exhausted and stuck in your relationships or your marriage?
The following is a common issue I see in my private practice either with single adults or any married person. There are many adults who report that they feel compelled to help their loved ones or anyone close to them trying to solve or fix their problems. How this...
25 Premarital Questions to Ask Before You Say I Do
Over 90% of the engaged couples spend more money and time investing on their wedding day than investing and preparing in their marriage. While two people are in love and have made their choice for a spouse, there is so much that I find out the don’t know before...
Is Marriage Counseling Right For Your Relationship?
When should you seek marriage counseling? Nobody wants to go to marriage counseling, even if their relationship is in dire need of it. In fact, Dr. John Gottman, one of the foremost experts on marriage and relationships, says that on average, couples will...
20 Helpful Marriage Counseling Questions to Ask Your Spouse
When it comes to couples, almost every single one of them has faced marriage problems and difficulties in their lives. If you ask any successful couple about their marriage, they’ll tell you the struggles they had to go through to reach this point of success and...
Attachment Theory – Your Love Style: Understanding Your Relationship Problems
Jousline Savra, Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, helps couples discover their love style, which is their attachment style, impacting communication and the problems couples face in their relationships. Communication is the life-blood of a relationship. Every single...
Love Styles – Are You an Avoider?
Jousline Savra is a How We Love marriage counselor in Burbank, and in this blog post, looks at the Avoider love style. First, to help you define what an Avoider love style looks like, let’s give you a quick run down of behaviors common to those being named an Avoider,...
Love Styles – Are You a Pleaser?
As a Burbank Marriage Counselor, Jousline Savra helps couples based on How We Love. Are you that good girl or that great guy in the relationship who is giving a lot, but is feeling anxious a lot. Are you worried about your image or worried what others think of you?...
Love Styles – Are You a Vacillator
Are you a Vacillator? A person displaying a Vacillator lovestyle says things like: I don't feel heard, I don't feel important to you, you don't get me, I am done - and as their spouse or partner, you simply feel stuck and frustrated you don't know what to do....
Love Styles – Are You a Controller?
Do you know someone in your life who is a controller? When problems in marriage or relationships arise, controllers will show up in your life from time to time. Continuing in our series on love styles in relationships as identified by Milan and Kay Yerkovich, we will...