Coupleworks Blogs
Men: The Forgotten Partner in Fertility and Miscarriage
Men: The Forgotten Partner in Fertility and Miscarriage My experience of working with couples at St Mary’s Hospital has made me aware of how men are often ignored. Men are sometimes not given the opportunity to explore and work through complicated feelings relating to...
Reuniting with family this year?
Reuniting with family this year? Alongside the gifts and good food arrives a big box of expectations – all creating an atmosphere that feels highly-charged and which could be explosive. What if we do not wish to conform this year? Is it hard to risk disappointing...
A Twin in a relationship with a non twin
With the likelihood that there will be more twins born now and in the future, due in part to Medical Intervention, there are relatively few books on the subject of a twin entering into a lifelong duo with a single birth partner. With the myriad interactions of couple...
Pre-marital Counselling
Pre-marital Counselling More and more couples are finding it helpful to have counselling before their big day. Taking time to invest in a relationship’s future enables a couple to move into marriage with their eyes wide open. It allows them to ask the hard questions...
‘Committed’ – A Love Story by Elizabeth Gilbert
‘Committed’ by Elizabeth Gilbert ‘Committed – A Love Story’ is indeed a love story of the author Elizabeth Gilbert and Felipe, a Brazilian-born Australian citizen. However it is so much more than that. It is a study of the institution of marriage. Interwoven into...
Couples and Expectations
Expectations Children form expectations from their environmental experiences. Some contributors are parents, siblings, friends, teachers, neighbours, religious teachings, heroes, heroines, books, films, television and social networks such as Facebook. These...
Couples and Difference
Every couple experiences difference within the couple dynamic. Cross culture. Religion. Social roots. Same language but different country of origin. Large family/only child. Involved family/detached family. Intrusive parents/discreet parents. Monied/financially...
What is celibacy?
What is Celibacy? Celibacy can be a choice in life, or a condition imposed by circumstances. While attending a Marriage Weekend, Ken and his wife, Janet, listened to the instructor declare, 'It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to...
Brene Brown – ‘I Thought It was Just Me’ (but it isn’t)
Read 'I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't) - Telling the Truth About Perfectionism, Inadequacy and Power' by Brene Brown and recognise an uncomfortable home truth! She describes how the search for the unattainable goal of perfectionism exhausts and weighs us down. ...
Fertility and Sex
When a couple is trying for a baby, sex can become contrived and mechanical. Trying to conceive or after having a miscarriage can seriously impact on a couple's sexual relationship. The focus from having a sexual experience into one of creating a baby can cause...