The COVID pandemic has brought about many paradoxical changes in our lives. Perhaps the chief of these involves our most intimate relationships. You’re probably spending more time than ever with your spouse or partner.

So many of us have suffered relationship damage and pain. Our bonds with parents, siblings, friends, acquaintances, partners, and adult children can be worn thin by conflict and misunderstandings.

When you think about your relationship with your partner, do you feel like your relationship is still defined by traditional gender roles? Or do you feel like there are more openness and equanimity in your relationship than there was for couples in decades and centuries past?

Whether you’re new to couples counseling or just new to the idea of online couples therapy, you may have some questions. Much of the online counseling process works in the same way as in-office sessions do.

Often, there is so much focus on unhealthy, struggling relationships that many people never even stop to ask what a healthy relationship looks like.

Are you at a point in your marriage where you’re torn between filing for divorce or trying to work things out? If so, you’re probably overwhelmed with questions and confusion. Making this decision is never easy.

If you’re like so many modern couples, your lives run at full speed, with little time to see each other between work, activities, kids, responsibilities, and more. Or, that is to say—your lives used to run at full speed.

You don’t have to be alive for long on this earth to figure out that love is hard. From elementary school crushes that go south within a few days and on throughout adulthood, relationships are difficult. You probably know many marriages that you thought would never end in divorce, and yet, they did.

The work of couples counselor Terry Real has provided new understandings of the role of boundaries in healthy relationships (as recently discussed here on my previous blog post).

You’ve probably heard about the importance of boundaries when it comes to our emotional health as individuals. The same applies when it comes to relationships.