Couples often seek counseling to assist them with the
following: communication difficulties,
intimacy, emotional expressiveness, alternatives to separation or divorce, promoting family cohesiveness and cooperation, cooperative parenting, affairs, conflict resolution, sexual difficulties, balancing relationships and family responsibilities, time management to enhance couple
intimacy and satisfaction, improve marital satisfaction, couple enrichment, strengthening partnership and committment, improving the quality of life as a couple, enhancing romantic love, learning to prioritize the marriage, couples communication assessment, exploring patterns of interaction, the development of healthy patterns of communication and behavior for new couples as they strive to build a strong foundation of love, learning how to speak with respect and understanding with their
partners, avoiding abusive and toxic interactions.
When a
partner learns the habit of using «I feel»
followed by a feeling word (sad, mad, scared, joy, happiness and fear) they can learn to invite collaboration and cultivate
intimacy.
This is a common situation: you make a sex or
intimacy - related request of your
partner; they seem to agree to it, but never actually
follow through.