This numbness eventually starts to show itself in
other areas of the relationship, and eventually, instead of working at maintaining the relationship, the pair is simply going through the motions.
Premarital counseling gives you the opportunity to celebrate your strengths as a couple and translate those strengths to
other areas of your relationship.
Some women are at the point where they feel that the issue of not being married yet is the only problem with their man, while others find that they are at the point where the marriage issue has started to cause problems in
other areas of their relationship.
Premarital counseling in Bethesda, MD gives you the opportunity to celebrate your strengths as a couple and translate those strengths to
other areas of your relationship.
As in
any other area of our relationship, sexual context can easily trigger two main fears in all of us — FEAR OF REJECTION or / and FEAR OF ABANDONMENT.
It also struck me from the responses to the WSJ article that meeting a partner's sexual needs is perceived differently from meeting a partner's needs in
other areas of the relationship.
Nonetheless, regardless of its origin, the gender difference we found certainly warrants future investigation, including in research that examines balance (or equity) not only in relationship initiation and maintenance, but also in
other areas of the relationship (resources contributed, household chores, etc.).
When one partner begins to feel undervalued and unappreciated, there is a higher likelihood of infidelity occurring in
other areas of the relationship.
If there are
other areas of your relationship you need help with, you may explore our family and marriage counseling services.