Sometimes our childhoods affect how secure we feel in our adult, romantic partnerships. It can be hard to communicate with someone from a different background or someone that hasn’t known us for a long time. Sometimes we, or our partners, bring things like depression, physical ailments, past relationships, abandonment and attachment issues, trauma, or just everyday work stresses to the table. Other times, we have disagreements about how to raise the kids, how to split chores, how to communicate on a deeper level, or even on different sexual expectations.
What’s important is that these issues don’t snowball into bigger problems. When unaddressed, oversights and small slights can have lasting affects that harm the relationship and the self-worth of the individuals. Past hurts and trauma get carried with us into the future and harm other, future relationships. This is the core of couples therapy. By addressing the problems so the emotional weight can be processed and lifted, we help couples find healthier, more productive, patterns of connection.
Whatever issues you and your partner are facing, our therapists have focused their careers solely on improving relationships.
