Managing Finances in Your Relationship
Couples have different financial stressors. If you are like many couples, you may struggle with your spouse spending while you want to save every dime you own, or the other way around. Some couples find that both partners have different sensitivities from their history, what we call schemas, that cause their finance issues, such as one spouse being a pessimist, seeing the work with a negative filter that assumes the worst, while the other partner falls into approval-seeking, seeking status that they think will somehow secure their worth to other people they view as important.
Does Couples Counseling Work?
Does couples counseling work? This is the first question that comes to mind when a couple decides to try counseling to resolve issues or conflicts within their relationship. It’s a valid question. The moment you decide to undergo therapy is an indicator that you have some serious issues within the relationship – it’s something that is way beyond the scope of regular fights that most couples go through.
Time to Strengthen Your Marriage?
Even in the best of times, marriages and love relationships take time and effort to sustain. However, the pandemic has strained even the healthiest of relationships. If you are like a lot of couples, you probably have been struggling with your partner or spouse as you both try to work, take care of your kids, cope with possible financial stressors, and fight over other pressures that cause stress, all of which may have taken a toll on your relationship.
What are the top 10 warning signs of an affair?
Finding out your partner or spouse is having an affair is one of the worst fears to face. Suspicions alone can’t be taken as evidence that they are cheating on you. However, unless mistrust is one of your key areas of sensitivity that your brain may be magnifying, you may be picking up on something that needs to be addressed with your spouse. If you think there’s a legitimate reason to be concerned, it’s better to find out the truth and address it rather than live in ignorance.
How to Deal With Emotional Neglect in a Marriage
Emotional neglect is when the emotional needs of an individual are disregarded or are not valued in a relationship. For the one on the receiving end of the neglect, it can be traumatizing and could harm their psyche. Unfortunately, emotional neglect in marriage is often swept under the rug, simply because it is not as visible as physical abuse. Some couples might not even realize that they are suffering from the effects of emotional neglect in their relationship.
Rebuilding Trust After an Affair
Rebuilding trust in a relationship can be a difficult and challenging task, but it is possible with the right mindset and approach.
Gen X and Boomer Parents: Tips to Help Avoid Resentment
I got into a fistfight with the literal “boy next door” when I was 10 years old, which left my eye slightly injured. Although I can’t recall the specifics of the fight, I do recall that I believed he had won fair and square. The following week, everything had been forgotten, and we were once again having […]
