Be careful with where you get your relationship advice. It is one of those easy-to-find commodities that you can get in any $5 magazine at the grocery store. When you are in a relationship, you are bound to get plenty of solicited, and often unsolicited,...
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Life Demands Couples Counseling
Contrary to popular belief, couples counseling is not just for people who are headed towards divorce court. In fact, couples that have excellent relationships often use couples counseling as the way to achieve them. Just like you never know how to be a parent...
Couples Counseling Can Give You the Relationship You Want to Have
If you and your spouse have been at each other's throats and feel like you are no longer able to communicate or successfully live life together, it is time to come in for couples counseling. Many couples wait until it is too late to seek the assistance of a therapist....
The Most Effective Type of Foreplay
Do you know how much foreplay the average woman needs? There's an incredibly effective type of foreplay, but it may surprise you.
What are the Goals of Couples Counseling?
There are many goals of couples counseling from preparing for marriage to learning how to work through major relationship issues. No matter what your reasons for counseling are, the positive results that you can reap from counseling are unmatched. Listed below are a...
4 Strategies for Moving Forward with a Break Up or Separation
So very often, we work with clients who have realized that it's time for them to end a relationship that hasn't been working for quite some time. After making that decision and getting clear for themselves, we often witness them stall out and freeze; sometimes for...
What I Wish Everyone Knew About Relationship Problems & Couples Therapy
At Flourish Counseling & Coaching, we're on a mission to teach busy, loving couples the key strategies and insights that will help them not only stay together, but reach a deeper level of fulfillment than ever before. Here's the first installment in our new series...
A Widower Reflects Back on 35 Years of Marriage
On vacation in the quaint, water-side town of Mystic, Connecticut my husband and I stopped in at a local pub one night and made ourselves comfortable at the bar. Beside me sat a gentleman who appeared to be in his seventies. On a Friday night at a bar, he was ordering...
The Opposite of Love is Indifference
I don’t generally recommend the lyrics from rock songs as offering sound relationship advice. However, one of the lyrics in the Lumineers song “Stubborn Love” is spot on for a very common relationship issue. Here’s the line: “The opposite of love is indifference.” The...
Replace Peck Kisses with Something Steamier
Couples in long term relationships know that it can become challenging to maintain a “spark” or fiery chemistry with one another year after year. Even happy and committed couples frequently find that sustaining passion requires effort. Passionate kissing is one of the...
Know what should change—but keep finding yourself in the same pattern?
Understanding the problem is the first step. Changing the behavior is the work.