Two news items caught my attention this week: how stress impacts relationships and whether there is a stress gender divide. The first is new research released for National Stress Awareness Day on 1 November 2017 shows that many more women than men are feeling stressed...
Tough times are likely to invade all relationships at some stage, and unexpected challenges can come upon us very suddenly. Life will sometimes deal unforeseen blows that appear with shocking suddenness. When ‘Sickness/Poorer/Worse’ replace the...
When couples come in for the first time there are one or two common questions which they ask. How many sessions will they need and how long will it take are both very familiar to me. This is very helpful in terms of trying to listen and hear their story...
Couples often come into therapy anxious that their relationship has developed a disturbing negative dynamic. They are unsettled and ill-at-ease and have lost the sense of each other as an emotional safe haven. They have become less confident in their future together...
Learn to negotiate your money, the biggest pitfall in couple life Forget the chores, the sex and even the in-laws, it is the unsolvable disagreements about money that research now shows to be the biggest source of serious difference leading to separation in...
“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness...
