Are your needs being met in your marriage or love relationship?
Scientists have identified seven inherent needs that exist in our brains. Read about how these needs can have a significant impact on your marriage or love relationship. First, what are these needs, and how much does it matter whether they are met? How do you stay balanced between your own needs, and the needs of your partner? Each need originates from nerve-based circuits in the brain that connect electrochemical signals, meaning nerve cells transmit messages to each other until specific parts of your body receive the information needed to perform the behavior to get your need met.
Surviving turbulent times in your marriage or love relationship
We all want life to give us certainty, and we all desire a sense of permanence. At the same time, there are moments when we are faced with the reality that life is uncertain, and volatile. Even with the latest advances in medicine, and our eternal struggle for immortality, we still face a reality that at some point, we will lose loved ones around us, and eventually, we will die. Read more about how to navigate your longings and desires in a world where you are forced to face certain realities is an area that can challenge your well-being, and the connection in your marriage or love relationship.
What are the warning signs for an affair in your marriage or love relationship?
For some partners, they want to end a marriage or love relationship, and don’t know another way of getting out. Other partners want to chase after a “rush” that comes from new situations. Read about how, for most couples, the origins of an affair for one partner is usually more about the attention they receive from another person outside of the marriage or love relationship who ends up becoming an affair, after they have lived for sometimes many years in a primary relationship that is the equivalent of an emotional desert.
7 New Year’s Ways to Improve Your Marriage
You’ve heard the typical New Year’s resolutions before: lose weight, learn to play an instrument, save more money! These resolutions are all well and good, but they rarely last through the whole year. Most people will start strong for the first 2-4 weeks of the year but grow tired of forming new habits and let their resolutions fall to the wayside. But what if your resolution is a bit more…personal? What if you resolve to strengthen your relationship with your significant other? You don’t want to let that fall to the wayside after 2-4 weeks!
Helping Your Marriage Survive the Pandemic in New York
The pandemic has put a massive strain on the world as a whole. The COVID-19 virus is pushing our healthcare system to its breaking point, our education system is scrambling to adapt to the challenges of virtual learning models, and the tension of it all is affecting our marriages and love relationships.
How to Communicate Better in Your Marriage
If you and your partner/spouse feel that tension crops up in your lives more often than you’d like or feel that miscommunication is just a part of daily lives, you need to re-examine how you approach these issues as a couple. Rather than pushing further down the path that you’re on, just waiting for another inevitable argument, it’s time to change the way you communicate.
Should You Get Premarital Counseling?
So, should you get premarital counseling? In short: yes! Every couple can benefit from premarital counseling before they walk down the aisle. It’s much like preventative medicine versus acute care – wouldn’t you much rather take measures now to ensure your relationship’s health than have to reach out for help when things are bad? But just in case you need more convincing, here are some signs that you and your future spouse should definitely participate in premarital counseling.
Staying Together for the Children?
Unfortunately, there’s no manual for divorce; no clear-cut, black-and-white rule book that gives you step-by-step guidelines for navigating this season of your life. But there are a few indicators that will help guide you to an answer. If you and your partner are considering a divorce but hesitating for the sake of the kids, consider these questions from our blog.
How to Treat Your Valentine in New York: Pandemic Version
Just because your dinner reservations may be canceled doesn’t mean that connecting with your love is canceled too! Taking some time to recharge your romantic life may help reestablish some normalcy and comfort for both of you. If you’d like to do something special for your spouse or partner but don’t know where to get started because of the pandemic, check out these ideas to treat your other half to a beautiful Valentine’s Day – no Hallmark cards required.
Dreaming of a Post-Pandemic Relationship?
At the beginning of quarantine, there was a bit of panic about how couples would be able to maintain stability within their relationship under these new conditions. There was a time when it was very easy to find blogs writing about how the pandemic has resulted in an increase in divorces and a decrease in marriages. But if you were to take a closer look, many would see that that isn’t the complete picture. While it is true that there has been a decrease in marriages in the past year, that has more to do with so many venues and businesses being closed down for most of the year.
