Category Archive for "Couples Issues" | Better Couples Therapy

Do You Have Healthy Boundaries in Your Relationship?

Having good boundaries in a relationship is immensely important. Whenever boundaries are either too strict or too loose the relationship suffers... If boundaries are too loose they can become an existential threat to the relationship: A relationship can only exist when clear boundaries are drawn around a couple and the sanctity of the relationship is…

How Couples Can Resolve Differences in Parenting Styles

A common source of conflict in couples is how to best raise children together. Parenting is a stressful endeavor and often brings out deep-rooted differences in how each person believes their children should be raised. One person might be more authoritarian and strict whereas the other is more egalitarian and permissive, or one person might…

What to Do if Your Partner is Always Unhappy or Dissatisfied about Your Relationship

What to do when your partner continues to express dissatisfaction with your relationship? Learn how to address this issue without losing yourself in the process.

What to Do if You Are Feeling Unfulfilled in Your Relationship

Learn how to best communicate with your partner if you are feeling unfulfilled in your relationship.

How to Be Your Partner’s Greatest Stress Reliever

Learn what to do and what not to do when your partner is going through a stressful time and is counting on you for support

The 3 Most Common Issues that Bring Couples to Couples Therapy

What are the three most common issues that bring couples to couples therapy? Find out what they are and what you can do about them

5 Steps to Transforming Relationship Resentments

Learn 5 easy steps to turning moments of anger, hostility, and resentment into moments of greater intimacy and closeness.

How To Turn a Negative Relationship Around

Many couples struggle daily with conflicts, negativity, or unmet needs. Learn how to get unstuck from the negative pattern and turn your relationship around

Negotiating Different Needs for Closeness and Alone Time in Romantic Relationships

How do you negotiate different needs for closeness and alone time in a relationship? Learn how to respect differences without sacrificing your own needs.

My Partner is Depressed: What Should I Do?

What do you do when your partner is depressed? Learn the Do's and Don'ts...

5 Characteristics of a Healthy Relationship

How do you know if your relationship is a healthy one? The general rule of thumb is that a relationship is as healthy as can be when both partners feel secure and safe with each other. Both partners need to know that they can turn to each other if they need something and that they…

How to Respond When Your Partner is Acting “Crazy” (and Reasoning Doesn’t Work)

One of the things that are most difficult for many couples to deal with are those moments when one or both partners just aren’t acting rationally or reasonably. One person, for example, might be full of rage and accusations about something that leaves the other person perplexed, and at their wits end. “All I…

How to Save Your Relationship from Failing

For a long time we have been thinking mistakenly about couples issues. We have thought that if one partner is unhappy, the solution lies in either changing their own expectations, or asking for a change in their partner. We have thought that relationships are essentially about compromises between two people who ultimately have to change…

It is one of the most common occurrences in couples therapy: a nagging, complaining wife, and a husband who feels criticized and can’t seem to please his wife. These are of course gender stereotypes, but they are stereotypes for a reason. Statistically, it is often the woman who complains about not getting enough attention or…

How to Know if You Are Compromising Too Much in Your Relationship

In many relationships the issue is that couples compromise too much – not too little. Want to know why? Then this blog post is for you…

Reviving Your Relationship: What to Do When Your Partner is Inattentive and Disengaged

One of the most frequent reasons couples come to couples therapy is that one person experiences the other person as withdrawn, checked out, or inattentive. One Woman's Story: A woman in her mid-twenties, for example, complained that her husband enjoyed playing video games more than he enjoyed talking to her. Because she did…

How to Resolve Recurring Conflicts in Your Relationship: John Gottman, one of the most acclaimed researchers on couples conflict, has argued that about two thirds of all issues couples argue about are irresolvable. He calls these issues, perpetual conflictsand they consist of difference in taste and habit that are so deeply ingrained in…

What Do Women Want Out of a Relationship? “Why is My Husband or Boyfriend so Thoughtless and Uncaring?” Many women in heterosexual relationships often find themselves asking this question. Their deepest wish is that their husband or boyfriend will finally wake up and treat them like they truly care. For many women the…

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