Category Archives: Couples Therapy

Why Do Marriage Therapists Undertreat Sexual Problems?

Surprisingly few marriage therapists inquire in sufficient detail about ttheir couples' sexual activity, or focus enough on sexual issues during treatment.

What’s All This Talk About Couple “Communication Skills?”

Before you think of committing to marriage, be sure that you and your potential partner have the communication skills to build a marriage that will be forever loving and lasting.

Self-Diagnosing Your Marriage Problems? Beware!

Eric Clapton's famed song suggests "Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself." To diagnose and fix problems that come up in your marriage, sit down and look inward instead of pointing fingers at your spouse's errors.

Need Help Coping With a Tough Marriage? A Painful Divorce?

Are coping with a tough marriage, or getting through a divorce, inevitably painful? Here's two factors that can alleviate much of the sting.

Options for the Unhappily Married

Country music group Pistol Annies poignantly sings about how marriage can become a trap. At the same time, the words suggest ways to open the trap and find routes to happiness,

Marriage: 8 Dangerously Wrong Conventional Wisdoms

Mistaken advice about marriage can have potent impacts. Beware especially of these relationship-wreckers.

Individual Therapy for Married People: A Huge Mistake?

In my view, it may be a very mistaken—albeit common—practice to treat individuals without assessing their relationship and family life.

How Effective Is Your Marriage Therapy?

If you and your spouse have had some tough times and turned for help to a couples counselor, how can you assess if the therapy is genuinely helping? Many folks in couples counseling are uncertain as to what to use as a measuring stick. Whether the therapist is "a nice person" is not sufficient. Try this quiz instead.

From Thin-Skin to Win-Win: How Couples Counseling Helps

Are you and your loved one living the opposite of happily ever after? If your partnership is yielding fear, resentment or anger, maybe it's time to reverse the trend.

Can Relationships Improve When Just One Partner Gets Help?

Marriage is a high-skills activity. Without the skills, people get hurt. But what if only one partner is willing to seek help?