After any relationship break up you can experience a lot of contradicting feelings and emotions. Sometimes it may feel as if you are riding an emotional roller coaster and unable to get off. What you are experiencing is grief very similar to the death of a loved one. You are grieving for the lost relationship, for what […]
Advice for MFT & Prepare Enrich Facilitators: In honor of Step Families day September 16th, we want to celebrate all kinds of healthy relationships by highlighting the uniqueness of blended families. We have asked the advice of our trusted step-family experts – Tace and Carmen Wieczorek, Trainers and Certified P/E Facilitators, and Ron Deal, co-author of The Smart Stepfamily […]
Emotionally cheating on someone is a real thing! It usually starts with an innocent friendship and without you realizing it grows in to something more intimate. There may not be any sex involved but once you emotionally start connecting with someone else and confiding and sharing things with them you would usually with your partner, […]
Our “WE” is broken Your “We” has two “I’s” within it, the foundation of the “We”, so it makes sense to first fix the foundation that supports the relationship. To help any couple visualize what they need to work on, we draw a nest of triangles. Each triangle within this figure represents one of […]
“So I’m asking you all, are there any really good answers or hope?” My husband and I have had this cycle of catching him viewing porn for what seems always. We’ve talked about it and it goes away then somehow comes back. About 4 or 5 years ago, I decided to check the telephone […]
Intimacy is a process. It takes place over time and is not stagnant. In fact, any kind of stagnation in a relationship kills intimacy. Intimacy can also take many forms. One form of intimacy is cognitive or intellectual intimacy where two people exchange thoughts, share ideas and enjoy similarities and differences between their opinions. If […]
Do you have some advice for Sean? Long one here bear with me.. Me and girlfriend have been together for nearly 8 years. We started going out when I was 20 and she was 16. It’s been a great relationship for the most part and we have been living together for 2 years now. About […]
Eight Common Myths vs. Reality About Marital Infidelity
She was 20, he was 25, and they were walking down the aisle with a 7 month baby bump between them. Some people thought they were doomed. Who would have thought that they would end up 5 kids and 18 years later still together? What is it about their partnership that somehow… clicks? Another marriage […]
Today I wanted to talk about what you fear. Fear of growing old. Fear of falling out of love. Fear of them falling out of love with you. Fear of not knowing how to fix it. When you meet your fear, it can cause you to do strange things. It can push your loved one […]