Archive for success

Getting the intimacy you want

Intimacy…everybody wants it, not everyone can achieve it. The desire to express and experience intimacy is a natural human desire, yet many relationships are starved of this at different times throughout the relationship. When couples first come together intimacy is sensational and each person carries the expectation that it will last forever. Some couples however

Relationship Health Check

All couples agree that marriage is an investment. Like all investments it will continue to grow and develop if you both put time and the right type of effort into it. The old adage applies here, ‘the more you put in, the more return you will get’. We have been counselling families and couples for

Is being different good or bad?

Having been a marriage counsellor for many years, it would seem that most couples are indeed opposite to each other on many things and surprisingly many couples are okay. In fact most marriage counsellors would say that it is not the differences between couples that cause the problems. It is not simply a matter being

Tips to make counselling successful

Learning from the couples who succeed in marriage counselling What to DO…and not to do 1. Successful couples see counselling sessions as a process, rather than a quick fix. They understand that long-standing issues are not going to be resolved in a few sessions. The steady road is the sure one. 2. They ‘don’t fight