Whether you are a couple living together, married many years, newly wed or domestic partners, intimate relationships can pose great struggles and offer incredible rewards. As you develop your relationship over your lifetime, situations will inevitably arise and challenge you.
Many couples feel strains in their relationship due to:
* Caring for an in-law
* Making financial ends meet
* Recently having a baby
* Career Stress
* Family responsibilities
* Lack of intimacy
These issues can easily distract you from your partner. You or your partner may feel distant, frustrated, angry and resentful.
Some couples find resolve without therapy but others find themselves caught up in a cycle of negative emotions. Couples who do decide to enter into a counseling relationship get to have a third party witness their disputes, observe their reactions, and guide them through the rough patch. Through therapy, many couples learn how to communicate effectively, share feelings, thoughts and concerns and to handle relationships challenges without losing connection to their partners.
Many couples report that the structure of therapy helps them stay on track and not get stuck in “what happened last week”. Events are discussed but always within a frame of moving forward and beyond conflict toward resolution.
Couples who love each other and commit to their relationship learn how to:
• Improve communication
• Understand and practice compromise
• Cope with stress
• Make each other a priority
• Live like lovers instead of buddies
• Make time for intimacy and sex
• Meet each other’s needs and desires
Love can feel complicated as it is often filled with joy and pain. However, when two people attempt to build a life together, extraordinary learning, growth and connection can occur. From this, couples can learn how to be fully present to themselves, to each other and to their relationship. Couples counseling is an intense, intimate experience, one we are honored to be a part of.
204 Eagle Rock Ave
Roseland, N.J. 07068
(973) 226-1505
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