Marriage 101
9 Steps to building a Better Relationship
When a marriage is in trouble it is important to make the right changes or run the risk of divorce or history repeating itself. The challenge is most couples don’t really understand how to go about making those changes so they can go about building a better marriage than ever before.
Is your Communication in the dumps?
Welcome to my 9 Steps using Emotionally Focused Therapy
to rebuild your marriage
9 EFT Steps to a Happier Love Connection
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What do you want your marriage to be? What does the relationship of your dreams look like? Understand some of the ways your relationship history effects your relationship now.
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Discover and describe the way some of your talks about issues get caught in a loop of disagreement that go round and round often causing great distress in your relationship.
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Describe how your partner effects you when you try to discuss difficult issues and how it effects the way you feel about them.
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Decide together with me how you want to change these repetitive disagreements and learn how they are effecting the quality of your relationship. Describe the strengths in your relationship and what you need to feel cherished by your partner.
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Change your communication Pattern. Observe the way you are now able to talk to each other about difficult topics in a more productive way and identify the things that are said that may cause you to fall back into that negative loop.
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Create a new intimate Relationship Bond. Notice how your partner understands more clearly what you need from them. Stay open to some new ideas about how your partner is thinking or feeling about the relationship, helping to create stronger feelings of closeness.
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Explore more closely what helps you feel bonded and close like a team. You have found a new, more loving way to relate to each other. You have learned to respond to the clearer more defined needs of your partner.
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Use new communication to revisit any old problems that have plagued you and talk about them in this new emotionally connected way. This bond assures you that your partner is there for you. Together you can face life’s problems more easily.