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Common Communication Issues in Relationships
The big challenge for couples is to try to understand that… You’re not symbiotic. You came into this relationship as two individuals. Both of your opinions/perspectives can exist in the same space (and believe it or not, both are right). The Art of Communication Different opinions are not right or wrong – it’s just allowing…
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Getting The Love You Want: Weekend Couples Workshop
Become the most connected couple you know with this Long Island weekend workshop to help you & your partner enhance closeness, communicate better, and experience a deeply fulfilling & lasting relationship. SAT & SUN, SEPTEMBER 21 & 22, 2019, 9:30-7:00 PM 575 Broadhollow Road Melville, NY 11747 (MAKE IT A GETAWAY: located across the street…
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Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples
A marriage therapist and counselor explains that most of the feelings of receiving inadequate love come from unresolved childhood conflicts and describes how adults can learn to flourish as loving and loved people. The New York Times bestselling guide to transforming an intimate relationship into a lasting source of love and companionship, now fully revised with a…
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Tara Brach
“Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it suddenly lunges at you, teeth bared. You are frightened and angry. But then you notice that one of its legs is caught in a trap. Immediately your mood shifts from anger to concern:…
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Harville Hendrix
Consciousness is Key – When we are unaware of the unconscious agenda of romantic love, it is a disaster, for our childhood scenarios inevitably repeat themselves with the same devastating consequences. There is method to this madness, though. The unconscious recreation of the ambiance of childhood has the express purpose of bringing this old impasse…
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“Is Now a Good Time to Talk?”
Introducing couples to relationship growth and healing through Imago therapy. Communicating in a relationship – learn intentional dialogue in Imago relationship therapy. Make sure that you ask your partner, “Is now a good time to talk?” or “Do you have the time to talk?” Getting The Love You Want – A Workshop for Couples in…
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Relationship Tip #18
Make “moments of connection” special. Research shows that certain moments in your day, as a couple, do matter. These are: when you first awake when you leave for work when you return home when you say goodnight Take the time to greet each other, hug, kiss, look at each other eye to eye or anything…
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Imago Relationship Therapy – Appreciate Your Partner
ROBIN NEWMAN, LCSW-R, PC Individual, Family & Couples Counseling Long Island, NY. Appreciate Your Partner The Huntington Relationship & Therapy Center 148 East Main Street Huntington, NY 11743 (631) 421-4701 “My approach towards couples is oriented not only towards solving the problems the couple is facing, but to revive the feeling of love and affection they have…
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What happens when we’re in a long term relationship and the sparks and commonalities no longer seem to apply?
One of the biggest long term relationship foundation issues that I hear from couples is that things have changed. But life (and people) continue to change. Words I hear from couples often when in my office: “You’re not the person who I married.” “What happened to us?” “We used to have fun and share the…
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Relationship Tip #17: Blaming has no positive effect at all.
“Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reasoning and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.” Relationship Tip #17: This quote from Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us that blaming another person does not work; what works is understanding the other. I…