Category Archives for Married Life & Intimate Relationships
Marriage during COVID…How Have We Been Affected?
We are a year into the pandemic. We have gone from shutdowns to partial reopenings, all of these changes due to COVID-19. Although we are still in it, so to speak, now is a good opportunity to look at
Continue readingThe New Normal After COVID? 13 Resilient Ways Couples Can Navigate What’s Next
I’ve been thinking a lot about what our new normal after COVID will look like. Many older Americans like me will soon be getting their second vaccine shots. Now what? How will the world be
Continue readingCan a Marriage Survive an Affair After COVID? 4 Important Steps to Make Sure the Healing Continues
As we have been shut down as a society, there will be changes for some couples as the world begins to open up again, I am especially thinking of the couples who are healing from an affair. Some of
Continue reading8 Effective Ways Relationship Anxiety Can be Curbed in an Otherwise Good Marriage
Working with couples to lower their relationship anxiety in what would be an otherwise good marriage presents couples therapists with a paradox.On one hand, the quality of the therapeutic bond is essential.Clients
Continue readingAre you doing these everyday things that inadvertently kill intimacy in marriage?
Are you doing these everyday things that inadvertently kill intimacy in marriage?Intimacy in marriage; foster it and then protect it How does a couple build intimacy in marriage? One researcher that has
Continue readingThe Holidays and COVID; 7 Critical Ways Couples Can Manage This Tough Conversation
Now we are managing the holidays and COVID, is it about time to rewrite your family traditions? All families have traditions and rituals. In my family of origin, Easter was a huge deal. We all
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