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Is date-night really that important for married couples?
The point of a regular date with your partner is the connection. It’s talking and getting back to who you were before life got too busy. Even when couples don’t have kids, they often mistake time together as quality time. Just because you occupy the same space day in and day out doesn’t mean that you’re connecting. You could be in the living room, and your partner could spend the evening in the bedroom on their laptop. You’re experiencing two totally disconnected realities even in the same space.
5 Signs You Need Couples Therapy in 2017
Have you been waiting a while to approach your partner about couples counseling? Has it been something on your radar for a while, but you haven’t wanted to rock the boat and dive in?
Initiating that conversation can be scary, and it’s totally normal to feel apprehensive about it, but using this New Year as a marker, it may be the best time to have that convo, and here are some signs that couples therapy should be on your to-do list in 2017:
When Good People Cheat: The Unmet Needs Affair
There are many types of affairs. The most common one that I see is the “unmet needs” affair. The unmet needs affair happens when you feel as though there is something missing in your relationship with your partner.
10 Ways for Mamas to Recharge
It’s not fair to think that we can be present at ALL times. In order to do all the things, mamas need to time to themselves, they need that foot massage to get over the hump, and they need to fill their cup so they can give to their people.
Here are 10 things you can do to recharge your batteries that I think are so much better than that crumby foot massage machine:
Choosing to show up in Marriage
Marriage is hard. What else do we choose to have in our lives, for the rest of our lives? We don’t get to choose our family, for better or worse, we are just born into them. We choose all sorts of other long-term things to be committed to, like a job, a mortgage, a car loan, and possibly education. But none of those things come with contracts that bind us to them until death.