But to get there, you have to learn to
fight for intimacy.
Not exact matches
Couples
fight about money, housework, how they spend their free time,
intimacy — the list goes on — but
for most couples, there's one specific topic that keeps coming up over and over again.
Experiencing
intimacy in your relationship, believe it or not, is sometimes a result of
fighting for what you believe in — even if your partner doesn't see things the same way.
Every four months
for two years couples wrote about their relationship satisfaction, including
intimacy, love, passion, trust and commitment, and wrote objectively on the most significant
fight they had over the last four months.
• New assessments and effective interventions to help understand couples» struggles • Research - based strategies and tools to help couples successfully manage conflict • Skills that empower couples to dialogue about their worst gridlocked issues by uncovering their underlying dreams, history, and values • Methods to help couples process their
fights and heal their hurts • Techniques
for couples to deepen their
intimacy and minimize relapse
Collaborative Couple Therapy: Turning
Fights into Conversations and Problems into Opportunities
for Intimacy - Miami, FL
Collaborative Couple Therapy: Turning
Fights into Conversations and Problems into Opportunities
for Intimacy - Raleigh, NC
Collaborative Couple Therapy: Turning
Fights into Conversations and Problems into Opportunities
for Intimacy - VIDEO DOWNLOAD
The goal of Collaborative Couple Therapy is to better equip partners to solve the moment — to enable them to confide what's on their minds in a way that leads to talking rather than
fighting and withdrawing, fulfills the potential
for intimacy available in the moment, and turns them into joint troubleshooters in managing the relationship and dealing with whatever issues arise in it.
• Proven strategies and tools to help couples successfully manage conflict • Skills that empower partners to dialogue about their worst gridlocked issues • Approaches
for multiple presenting co-morbidities including incest, the effects of poverty, PTSD and infidelity • Methods to help couples process their
fights and heal their hurts • Techniques
for couples to deepen their
intimacy and minimize relapse Participants will also receive a 300 - page Manual featuring new relationship assessment questionnaires and clinical interventions that you can use immediately with your clients and a certificate of completion from the Gottman Institute
You will gain tools to help couples process
fights and heal their hurts, and techniques
for partners to deepen their
intimacy and minimize relapse.
When I double
for partners, I describe the principles I use to translate their
fight - provoking comments into
intimacy - inducing ones.
In an optimally functioning couple,
fighting and withdrawing become opportunities
for intimacy.
feeling disconnected (like roommates), having no
intimacy (emotional or sexual), couples who have the same
fight repeatedly...
for years, feeling like one person is chasing the other, feeling like one partner's focus is on work / kids / anywhere else, one person thinking / considering divorce while the other wants to stay, infidelity, adjustment to blended families, and especially couples who start out having a conversation about what's
for dinner and find themselves in WWIII.
Some helpful books on marriage are the following: Loving Solutions by Gary Chapman; Passage to
Intimacy: Key Concepts and Skills from the Pairs Program Which Has Helped Thousands of Couples Rekindle Their Love, by Lori H. Gordon and Jon Frandsen;
Fighting for Your Marriage: Positive Steps
for Preventing Divorce and Preserving a Lasting Love by Howard J. Markman, Scott M. Stanley, Susan L. Blumberg.
The following titles and authors may be a good starting place
for you: Loving Solutions by Gary Chapman; Passage to
Intimacy: Key Concepts and Skills from the Pairs Program Which Has Helped Thousands of Couples Rekindle Their Love, by Lori H. Gordon and Jon Frandsen;
Fighting for Your Marriage: Positive Steps
for Preventing Divorce and Preserving a Lasting Love by Howard J. Markman, Scott M. Stanley, Susan L. Blumberg.
It is ideal
for couples experiencing significant levels of stress, depression and conflict, couples struggling with a lack of
intimacy, poor or nonexistent communication, long standing recurring issues, pending empty nesters, anger issues, substance abuse, frequent
fights, outside influences such as infidelity, small business stress and threats of divorce.
It is ideal
for couples experiencing more significant levels of stress and conflict, couples struggling with a lack of
intimacy, poor or nonexistent communication, long standing recurring issues, pending empty nesters, anger issues, substance abuse, frequent
fights, outside influences such as infidelity, small business stress and threats of divorce.
You feel sad and alone in your marriage or relationship You are not a priority or last on the list You feel your partner is not there
for you There is little to no
intimacy or sex anymore Your spouse does not talk to you
for days (or weeks) when you've had a
fight You are exhausted trying to manage everything and you never get enough help You're ready to call it quits because it feels hopeless You have a new baby and things are so much worse now You're wondering if your relationship or marriage can be saved We hear from many men and women trying to find help
for their relationship.
If you are a couple, married or in a relationship, and would like to improve communication, increase
intimacy, stop
fighting and renew the spark of earlier feelings, then working with a therapist who applies Emotionally Focused Therapy or EFT could be
for you!