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Top 5 Signs of a Good Marriage Counselor
Top 5 Signs of a Good Marriage Counselor Finding the right marriage counselor can be very difficult. No matter how well trained they are, the therapy won’t be effective if you don’t feel that you three are a good fit. How can you tell if you’ve found a good one for you? [...]
Top 4 Myths about Bisexual Identity
Top 4 Myths about Bisexual Identity Bisexuality is a real sexual identity—it is not just a stage. Sexual interests, sexual behavior, and sexual identity are different and are not always aligned in an individual. Sexual interests, sexual behavior, and sexual identity are different and are not always aligned in an individual. Some [...]
Cycles of Sex Addiction
Cycles of Sex Addiction Those who suffer from a sex addiction typically experience what is called an addictive cycle, which includes four elements: preoccupation, ritual, sexual behavior, and despair. Cycle of Sex Addiction #1: Preoccupation During the preoccupation stage, a sex addict thinks ahead, making sure that he’ll have enough time and money to visit [...]
Relationship Advice: Four Ways to Take Responsibility for Saving Your Relationship
Relationship Advice: Four Ways to Take Responsibility for Saving Your Relationship If you find the right partner and want to stay together, it’s your response-ability to know those ways and how to avoid them. John Gottman, a leading researcher on successful marriages and couple’s therapist, cites the negative ways couples communicate—which, he says, [...]
Marriage Counseling: Exits to Look Out For
Marriage Counseling: Exits to Look Out For Entering marriage counseling means that you agree to commit to your partner 100 percent, as you did in the beginning. People always say they want commitment, but for many of us it is terrifying. All too often, earlier experiences in our childhood were so abusive [...]
Top 2 Ways to Balance Your Relationship in Couple’s Therapy
Top 2 Ways to Balance Your Relationship in Couple’s Therapy When working in therapy with couples, a balance is attempted between togetherness and separateness. Too much togetherness kills passion and desire. Too much separateness creates too much distance and kills love. The main focus of couple’s therapy is to break too much togetherness [...]