10 Common Marriage Reconciliation Mistakes To Avoid After Infidelity The infidelity has been brought to light… there are so many emotions: grief, anger, sadness, shame, disbelief, and hopelessness. There are questions to be asked and decisions that need to be made. Even if you are the most level-headed person, figuring out how …
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Couples Therapy: What To Do When Your Partner Would Rather Watch Paint Dry You desperately want to go to couples therapy. Your spouse doesn’t. What are you to do? To start, read my blog post series that addresses this very concern! You can find each article on the topic here, here, and here. I’m …
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What If My Partner (or Spouse) Refuses to Go to Counseling? This is the 3rd blog post in a series on how to handle it when your spouse or partner refuses to go to couples counseling. So, what do I say when I get the question: “What if my partner (or spouse) refuses to go …
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Reasons Not To Go To Couples Therapy (& Why They’re Flawed!) A couple of weeks ago, I started a 3-part series on what you might want to do when your partner gives you reasons not to go to couples therapy. Check out the original blog post that started this series. When you have your heart …
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Help! My Partner Refuses Couples Counseling From time to time, I hear variations on a theme regarding going to couples counseling: “My girlfriend refuses couples counseling” “My wife won’t go to marriage counseling!” “My husband won’t got to couples therapy” “We need couples therapy but my boyfriend won’t go.” If you are reading this …
Here’s the 411 on Gaslighting: Synonyms & Signs There’s an acclaimed academic researcher who learned through his research that, “You can’t tame, what you can’t name.” His research found that you can reduce stress by up to 50% just by noticing and naming your state. Can you actually describe what gaslighting is and how it …
Coparent Counseling: Why it’s a no-brainer! Parenting is hard! Period! End of Sentence! Co-parenting from two different homes adds an extra layer of challenge. Enter Coparent counseling! Coparenting on a good day, it takes extra communication, coordination, planning, and skill. On a difficult co-parenting day, tensions rapidly rise because you are at …
How Do Narcissists Treat Their Family: Expectations Versus Reality How do narcissists treat their family? We all know at least one person in our families with narcissistic tendencies. Hopefully, they are your distant cousin or uncle-twice-removed because that’s an easier problem to solve. When the narcissist is an immediate family member, you get an …
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What Happens When You Ignore A Gaslighter (8 Things You Should Know) Gaslighters are addicted to attention. They will do almost anything to get attention- positive or negative! What happens when you ignore a gaslighter? When you ignore them, their attention-seeking behaviors will only escalate. If they are more passive, they will try to …
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To Stay or Go? Marriage Discernment Counseling Being uncertain of whether to stay in a marriage or leave is stressful. It’s also not a decision that most people make very lightly. You may be feeling stuck… staying married may seem impossible and getting divorced seems equally impossible. When one of you is leaning towards …
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