Porn Addiction – 3 Main Physiological Problems That Arise It’s impossible to understand pornography’s impact on relationships without considering the role of the Internet. Years ago, it was a time-consuming —often expensive—chore to find new and titillating erotica. But in the last couple of decades, the range of explicit material [...]
The 4 Stages of Coming Out as a Couple in a Mixed Orientation Marriage In a mixed-orientation marriage, one spouse is straight and the other is gay or bisexual. The Straight Spouse Network (www.ssnetwk.org) cites that there are more than two million mixed orientation couples. Therapists will often [...]
Top 5 Signs of a Good Marriage Counselor Finding the right marriage counselor can be very difficult. No matter how well trained they are, the therapy won’t be effective if you don’t feel that you three are a good fit. How can you tell if you’ve found a [...]
Top 4 Myths about Bisexual Identity Bisexuality is a real sexual identity—it is not just a stage. Sexual interests, sexual behavior, and sexual identity are different and are not always aligned in an individual. Sexual interests, sexual behavior, and sexual identity are different and are not always aligned [...]
Cycles of Sex Addiction Those who suffer from a sex addiction typically experience what is called an addictive cycle, which includes four elements: preoccupation, ritual, sexual behavior, and despair. Cycle of Sex Addiction #1: Preoccupation During the preoccupation stage, a sex addict thinks ahead, making sure that he’ll have enough time [...]
Relationship Advice: Four Ways to Take Responsibility for Saving Your Relationship If you find the right partner and want to stay together, it’s your response-ability to know those ways and how to avoid them. John Gottman, a leading researcher on successful marriages and couple’s therapist, cites the negative ways [...]
Marriage Counseling: Exits to Look Out For Entering marriage counseling means that you agree to commit to your partner 100 percent, as you did in the beginning. People always say they want commitment, but for many of us it is terrifying. All too often, earlier experiences in our [...]
Top 2 Ways to Balance Your Relationship in Couple’s Therapy When working in therapy with couples, a balance is attempted between togetherness and separateness. Too much togetherness kills passion and desire. Too much separateness creates too much distance and kills love. The main focus of couple’s therapy is to [...]
Top 3 Ways to Effective Communication in Couples Counseling By the time most couples come to couples counseling, they are engaged in two separate monologues, not a dialogue. By the time they arrive in marriage counseling, they are no longer listening to one another and have stopped being [...]
Sex Addiction Counseling: The Top 3 Myths People not familiar with sex addiction often joke about it, probably because it makes them nervous and uncomfortable. Sex Addiction Counseling Myth #1: Sex Addiction is About Sex People not familiar with sex addiction often joke about it, probably because it [...]