Couples Coaching
How, for example, might you utilize counseling?
If you're feeling overwhelmed in your relationship and frustrated because no matter what you say, your partner doesn't understand what you mean, then you may benefit from one of the tools of coaching: communication training. You will come out the winner by committing to provide the relationship with tools to make it last.
Those tools are included in six-week couples coaching sessions. Initial sessions identify and provide the basics of communication, conflict negotiation, understanding personality styles and helping each other achieve your goals. Having these tools as a foundation for your relationship will empower you both to recognize your partner's true needs and learn to articulate your own.
Three service packages for couples
If your or your partner's unfaithfulness has damaged the trust in your relationship, it's going to take real work to reestablish the bond between you, but it can be done. Despite what you may have heard, there are reasons that people stray. Sometimes the causes are emotional, sometimes power-based, sometimes learned. Making structural changes in your relationship and changing the emotional climate can turn a bad situation into an opportunity to strengthen your bond.
Are your expectations reasonable? Did you buy into the cultural myth that you marry so that your spouse can make you happy? Or are you interested in discovering the deeper, enduring changes that an understanding partnership can add to your life.
The generation now marrying has grown up being constantly tested and measured against "standards". Often people think they need to define themselves as worthy of a relationship based on their jobs or possessions. Working hard to maintain these things, they find that they are too exhausted for the relationship AND unhappy.
These are all expectations, hoops to jump through, ways to prove your worthiness - from the outside. In your heart, you must feel worthy, valuable and be able to see the same worth and value in your spouse. Then you will feel strong enough not to blame each other for the disappointments of daily life. It's very hard if your transactions are all based on value judgments and culture driven expectations. The bonds that hold a relationship together are most durable when based on meeting each other's emotional needs.