The Counseling Couch – Blog
For Better and Worse: Your Marriage and Covid Pressure Cooker!
Covid 19 is changing everyone. The stressors dealing with the reality of the pandemic are significantly changing families, marriages, relationships, and interactions between people in new ways. There are new awakenings happening in our society. Under Covid 19, people...
How Pornography Affects Wives
Whether you are already aware of it or not, the reality is that the consumption of pornographic content has a significant impact on your marriage. For many, pornography is nothing more than "adult entertainment," still, not only in studies but I must share with you,...
Winning Over Relationship Problems Through Marriage Counseling
Happiness is one aspect of our lives that we all strive to achieve. Experiencing happiness in relationships is a different discussion. One route to feel that is through nurturing meaningful relationships. A strong relationship with people who bring joy into our...
How To Find The Right Couples Therapist
Romantic relationships offer people the opportunity to share a huge portion of their life with someone they really care about. Having the right skills and knowledge to make a fitting choice in a partner is difficult and it should be more than an emotional decision. A...
Marriage Counseling: When Is It the Right Time
When a couple comes in to meet with me, I often notice that they have waited too long to get help for their marriage. Sadly so, sometimes there it is simply too late because of too much damage done and it leads to separation or divorce, and other times, they have a...
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...