Do You Exercise in Your Marriage or Love Relationship?
Do you and your mate exercise together regularly? The single most important thing you can do for your health: physical exercise. How exercise and marriage or love relationships go together may not be clear to many people, but the literal effects are significant. Regular physical exercise can mean not only both you and your partner […]
Inside Your Marriage & Love Relationship: Stories
Stories organize how you experience your life and are a key way to communicate your experiences to other people. How you tell your stories is based on how you see yourself. The narrator in your story filters the details, descriptions, and meaning of your experiences, and is shaped by culture, community, family, relationships, and events. […]
Effective Conflict is the Booby Prize in a Marriage or Love Relationship
How do you fight in your marriage or love relationship? Fighting better is only the booby prize, from my experience with couples. As good as it feels to be able to engage in conflict effectively, it’s not the grand prize for a marriage or love relationship. Join me for the next Marriage and Couples in […]
What are the 4 S’s of a Healthy Marriage or Love Relationship?
How Can Your Marriage or Love Relationship in NYC Improve? Daniel Siegel’s new book, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, is for more than just teenagers. In fact, understanding how the brain, the mind, and relationships interact can help everyone improve their marriage and love relationship. Watch this broadcast the Daniel Siegel […]
Seeing danger signs in your marriage
When a couple is stuck in a negative pattern, even the slightest action can turn into an explosive eruption. For most couples who come for marriage therapy, they realize that they are not able to get out of it on their own. This acceptance is a first step to identify the problem behind the pattern, and then develop a plan for change that involves creating a new way to connect with each other.
Read about the ingredients of a conflict are mostly similar with most couples in a negative pattern. In most cases, one partner criticizes or blames, and another defends or withdraws. For some couples both partners go into an attack mode, with one or both eventually retreating. In the worst cases, both partners stop attacking, but in a withdrawal state, the relationship is on life support.
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.
In-Laws Interfering in Your Marriage?
Couples have a lot of reasons to see a marriage therapist: arguments, emotional neglect, finances, affairs. But most couples never think that their marriage will be sabotaged by their in-laws. Some in-laws seem like a dream parents, where they help with raising the kids, come over for a glass of wine, and even become very close with […]
