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Why Do Marriage Therapists Undertreat Sexual Problems?

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Surprisingly few marriage therapists inquire in sufficient detail about ttheir couples' sexual activity, or focus enough on sexual issues during treatment.
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What’s All This Talk About Couple “Communication Skills?”

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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.
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Self-Diagnosing Your Marriage Problems? Beware!

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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.
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Options for the Unhappily Married

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

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Are coping with a tough marriage, or getting through a divorce, inevitably painful? Here's two factors that can alleviate much of the sting.
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Marriage: 8 Dangerously Wrong Conventional Wisdoms

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Mistaken advice about marriage can have potent impacts. Beware especially of these relationship-wreckers.
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Individual Therapy for Married People: A Huge Mistake?

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In my view, it may be a very mistaken—albeit common—practice to treat individuals without assessing their relationship and family life.
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How Effective Is Your Marriage Therapy?

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

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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.
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Can Relationships Improve When Just One Partner Gets Help?

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Couples Therapy: 15 Essentials That the Best Therapists Do

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If you are a therapist, to what extent do you follow these guidelines? If you are choosing a therapist, or evaluating whether to stay with one you've been with, here's help.
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Couples Therapy: The Four Questions

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Leonardo Niño Rodríguez, a journalist in Colombia South America, recently asked me for a state-of-the-art assessment of couples therapy.
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