The Counseling Couch – Blog
Finding the Right Person to Date
When you're looking to meet the right person, there are a wide variety of obstacles that you need to overcome. We have asked some experts for their tips to help people find the right person to build a loving, worthwhile, and healthy relationship. Some common obstacles...
Best Tips To Enhance Communication in Marriage
If someone asks you what the real premise of a happy married life is, you can say character, love, responsibility, authenticity, and competency. Why is communication so critical to having a long and satisfying relationship with the significant other? What is the job...
Surviving Infidelity in Your Relationship: 15 Powerful Steps
You can survive infidelity and rebuild the relationship. However, the process has to be slow and cautious. Both you and your partner need to work together on this. If you have been betrayed, you must find the right support and that is a psychotherapist or a licensed...
Rebuilding Trust In Your Marriage After Infidelity
Infidelity is a common factor that contributes to the crumbling of a marriage due to the hurt, betrayal, and trust issues that often manifest. Many relationships become weaker or dissolve entirely as a result. However, this does not mean that every marriage is doomed...
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...