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What is Couples Counseling REALLY Like?
Couples therapy can sometimes seem like a mysterious process, and if you've never experienced it before, you might be wondering what it's all about. Keep reading, because today I'm going to break it all down for you!
The Silent Treatment
Do you give the silent treatment?
You know. You're pissed off after a blow up or spat with your partner and suddenly you're super busy - rage cleaning, or organizing something you'd never take the time to do otherwise.
Staying busy, not making eye contact, and not having to talk lets him or her know just how unimportant they are, right?
But that’s the thing - it makes your partner feel unimportant, among other things. So stop doing it! And keep reading because I want to teach you what to do instead:
3 Ways to Improve Communication in Marriage
“We just need to improve our communication!”
This is hands down, the number one thing couples tell me when they call for a consultation and want to start couples counseling.
So how do you improve your communication?
Here are three things you can start doing TODAY in order to improve your communication with your partner.
10 Things you should Stop Doing in 2020 To improve your relationship
There’s just something about the new year that can get you in the mood to make changes and create goals for yourself - big or small.
If you aren’t in the mood to make some lofty goals or big changes, I totally feel that too. I skipped my vision board last year and just went with a word that I wanted to feel. So my advice is really just to do what suits you best.
It’s easy to create goals for yourself but have you made any goals for your relationship for the coming year?
Is marriage counseling your last resort? 3 reasons it should be your first defense
The average couple waits 6 years before starting marriage counseling. That’s 6 years of unhappiness. 6 years!? That’s like earning a Bachelor’s and Master's degree in unhappiness! I just can’t fathom being unhappy for that long and those are not degrees I want to earn.
Waiting that long and doing some of the aforementioned things to try and work on the issues is like receiving a cancer diagnosis, being told by the doctor that the remedy is chemo and/or radiation, but deciding to take vitamins to try and see if that helps for a couples of years before bringing out the big guns and doing the prescribed treatment.