Your relationship has lost that special connection
There are many reasons for relationship difficulties, but when you notice disharmony, emotional distancing, conflict, depression or unhappiness surfacing it is clear something is wrong.
Couple counselling often exposes hidden anxieties and doubts, some of which may be deeply personal. It provides a neutral space where it’s safe to ask difficult questions, and where you and your partner can find reassurance that helps to restore trust in the relationship.
What causes relationship difficulties?
Family pressures internal or external
Differences in beliefs or values
Work/life balance
Stress
Confinement or limited living space
Loss of a loved one.
Feelings in yourself of rejection, fear, abandonment, frustration, anger, & alienation
Infidelity, lack of trust, jealousy, possessiveness
Lack of communication or poor communication
Financial issues
Uncertainty
Feelings of being controlled, or made to feel small or stupid
Issues of intimacy, sex and control
In your partner, expression of coldness, superiority, defensiveness, anger, aggression and/or violence
When any of these factors become established in a relationship, it can create a pattern of behaviour that forms a negative cycle of interactions, pushing partners apart. This pattern is difficult to put right without external, objective help and is very often the basic cause of relationship difficulties.
At Couple Counselling for All we help you learn to recognise these negative cycles and to develop strategies to avoid them arising, or if they do, to deal with them in a constructive rather than destructive way.