Your sadness over your marriage is at a point that you are now looking for help. You feel lonely around your partner. The fighting, arguing, lying, and false hopes in your relationship exist daily. And the passion and intimacy are gone. You feel afraid to bring up how you feel because you’re often blamed, ignored, or just looking for another fight! Marriage Counseling can work!
You feel alone and don’t want to talk to family and friends anymore because you are embarrassed. You see other couples and wonder why you can’t make yours work. Your self-esteem is down and so is your spirit. Talk to a Marriage Therapist like me.
Sometimes you wish were single again and fantasize about having an affair. Or maybe you are in one and now it has become a tangled web of deceit. Now what do you do? It might have caused some relief for a time, but you are still in a marriage that is not working. Or you found out your partner is having an affair and you have plenty of resentment, fear, distrust, and anger towards them. But you find you cannot leave. You feel trapped.
When we don’t share our feelings, hopes, fears, dreams, and all of the other aspects of life, we tend to close ourselves off from our partner, alienating them, and causing all communication to shut down. We begin to lose trust and hope. We don’t feel safe.
Sooner or later, all couples run into issues that challenge them. But it is how couples handle challenges — not the absence of them — that makes the biggest difference for lasting marriage health.
- intimacy, trust-building, communication skills & marriage counseling
- money issues & sexual concerns
- premarital counseling / spiritual or religious differences
- learning to express feelings so others really hear you
- dealing with an affair / feelings of anger and betrayal
- deciding to break-up or break through
problems with adult children & working through midlife crisis - issues arising from previous relationships
- blended family issues – “his children/my children/our children”
- stress due to time, money, work: the “not enough time for us” syndrome
Couples who are willing stay happy have learned strategies to keep their relationship strong, even when facing tough challenges. If you are ready to learn key tools and strategies for a successful marriage, contact me. Now is the best time.
Marriage Psychotherapy from a Christian perspective is available.
Do You Experience Jealousy or Insecurity in your Relationship?
Tension and conflict in the family or relationship. Arguments spent over amount of time spent with each other. Accusations of favoritism. Resentment and negative behaviors that seek attention. Physical destruction and expressing rage.
Reduce frustrations regarding lack of time spent with one another. Eliminate blame. Build positive ways of dealing with the need to be in control. Reduce dependent behaviors and become more independent.
Are you Considering Leaving Your Partner?
A new study done by scientists at Harvard University, Brown University and UC San Diego finds that divorce is a contagion that can spread through social groups like a virus, weakening the marriages closest to it.
In fact, the breakup of a close friend’s marriage can increase the likelihood of your own marriage ending by a whopping 75 percent! Some couples exist in a relationship where co-dependency has developed, which tends to be based largely on insecurities and fears rather than pure love and confidence.
A relationship like that can be emotionally draining. Though many go on this way for a lifetime, others realize they are in a failed relationship and stay unfulfilled. In many cases they want to move on, but just don’t know where to start. As humans beings we fear the unknown and worry about the future.
For a woman who is in a relationship with children, she may wonder how she can make it as a single parent, and this may keep her longer in a failed relationship. It can be difficult to admit that you and your partner are not compatible or that you have been unsuccessful with making the relationship work.
Your partner may not want to acknowledge that the relationship is over, and this can be painful. If you are considering leaving your relationship, perhaps it is time to minimize the stressors by speaking with me to explore whether your rocky relationship can be saved or not.
Couples Therapy Fees
- All Couples Session -50 minutes – $185
- Individual Session – 50 minutes – $155
- Individual/Couple/Family Extended Session – 75 minutes – $245
Have Questions?
Call and you can speak to one of our administrative staff. They are happy to help answer any questions or match you with a therapist.
