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.

Few things—indeed, perhaps nothing—can devastate a relationship like infidelity.

We like to believe that our marriages or partnerships are a place of emotional safety and security. In a world that can be lonely and hard, we yearn for the warmth and trust of a…