Couples often come to marriage or relationship counseling after trying to make changes on their own. Couples struggling with intimacy, communication, infidelity, or other issues often wonder if couples therapy or marriage counseling works. There are indeed couples who have succeeded and couples who have failed at overcoming challenges with counseling or [...]
How Embrace New LifeTM Can Help We have seen countless marriages return from the brink of divorce to find renewed love. We've seen marriages that have recently fallen into a negative pattern and marriages that have been in the negative pattern for years. We've seen those plagued by contempt, defensiveness, stonewalling, and criticism [...]
Renew Your Marriage After putting thoughts of divorce aside for the holidays, unhappy husbands and wives file more divorce papers in January than in any other month. There’s a reason January is known as “divorce month” to many family lawyers. Most spouses who file don't want to put their children, partners or families [...]
How to Install a Pause Button in the Conflict When you are in conflict with your spouse, you will find that you both have been caught in a powerful cycle. Most marital conflict involves a fighter and a flighter. First, you have to notice with you or your spouse is in an 'F' [...]
Saving a Failing Marriage When Divorce Seems Imminent Are you wondering if there is a way to save a failing marriage where divorce seems imminent? The answer is, Yes! Although it seems quite unilkely to turn things around so dramatically when your relationship seems like it's at the end of its rope, we [...]
I feel like my wife wants a divorce all of a sudden. What's going on? If your wife wants a divorce all of a sudden, you're likely to be shocked, scared, and even angry. While you may not have seen this coming, it's more likely that her sudden desire to call it quits could [...]
Can you really "divorce-proof" your marriage and stop divorce? What can you do to divorce-proof your marriage? Is it even possible to stop divorce that seems like it is inevitable? There are two qualities that a couple needs to divorce-proof their marriage. Those two qualities are commitment and connection. When a couple is [...]
What to Do If Your Spouse Wants a Divorce and You Don't If your spouse wants a divorce and you don't, it's one of the scariest, most painful situations in which you can find yourself. What to do if your spouse wants a divorce You may find yourself panicking, acting out of desperation, [...]
