Building Trust in Marriage Building trust in marriage is a common marital issue that often propels couples into marriage counseling or couples therapy. It is about the dance of attunement, each partner attuning to each other. Attunement means: will you be there for me when I reach for you? Will you be there for me […]
Blame and Your Relationship
Blame – How it’s Impacting Your Relationship Blame is assigning responsibility for a fault or wrong. While it’s common to want to assign responsibility to someone or something when we feel we’ve been wronged. Problem is, when we begin blaming each other for circumstances and feelings, we begin harming our relationship and creating toxic interactions. […]
Repairing Relationships after a Disagreement
Repairing Relationships… Repairing relationships after an argument or disagreement can be difficult at times. Often there are hurt feelings. Feeling unsure about how to apologize. Feeling misunderstood and frustrated. This next relationship consideration focuses on just this…repairing relationships after an argument, disagreement, or error of some kind. Thou shalt correct all errors, including injustices and […]
Healthy Relationship Essential
Healthy Relationship Tip #2 We’re on to the second healthy relationship consideration… “Thou shalt base thy relationship on true mutuality, remembering that all decisions and actions must be good for thee AND for thine partner.” (Stan Tatkin) After learning about the first consideration, we are now moving into what it means to have “true mutuality” […]
