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7 Things You Can Do When your Partner Isn’t Being Supportive

Emotions, Family, Marriage, Relationships, Remarriage, Therapist / Meredith Keller

Do you have an unsupportive partner? Has one of these scenarios happened to you? You’re hurt by something your sister did but your partner doesn’t seem to care. Something major just happened and your partner seems distracted and disinterested as you’re telling them. You’re angry about how you were treated at the bank and your partner tells you it’s not a big deal. You’re worried […]

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Ways to Stop an Ex from Damaging Your Relationship: Three Guidelines for Communication

Divorce, Relationships, Remarriage / Couples

by Debby Deroian, Practicum Student-Therapist under the supervision of Meredith Keller LPC, ACS Imagine: You and your partner are finally having a much needed date night. This took a month to happen due to several cancellations with work and kids’ schedules! You are in the middle of dinner when your partner’s phone rings, and as

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Hurt By Hearsay? How Therapy Rebuilds Your Sense of Safety

Emotions, Relationships, Therapist, Uncategorized / Couples

Gossip – sometimes it seems we’re surrounded by it. We hear it all the time. It glares at us from nearly every grocery store headline. Have you seen so-and-so’s new haircut? What was he/she thinking? And what about those two? Can you believe they did that?! On the surface, gossiping can seem like harmless, idle

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Get a Grip: How to Keep Emotional Reactions From Hurting Your Marriage

Emotions, Events, Relationships, Uncategorized / Couples

Your emotions have a huge impact on your marriage. Whether your reaction to these emotions is to show them on the outside OR to keep outside of your awareness, your reaction might be driving your partner away. After many times of reacting similarly, a pattern sets in. This pattern may be a big contributor to

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What Was THAT All About?! Why Your Partner is Freaking Out Over Nothing and What You Can Do About it

Emotions, Relationships / Couples

Have you ever seen someone have a very strong reaction to something that seems minor? From your perspective, you’re wondering what the big deal is. Why are they getting so upset? Of course, this happens all the time in marriages and other intimate relationships. We see our spouse “freak out” over something small. Often, we

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Rules for Fair Fighting: How to Keep Your Head in the Middle of a Heated Argument

Emotions, Relationships / Couples

You’re seeing red. You’re in the middle of a heated argument with your spouse when the gloves come off: Do things get ugly? Are you screaming your head off? Does the argument veer off the original topic until you’ve covered just about everything you’ve ever been upset about? Do you follow your partner around the house because you just

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Infidelity: How Working Through it Can STRENGTHEN a Marriage

Emotions, Family, Relationships, Therapist / Couples

We think we should be strong enough to survive alone. Regarding marriage, we think that if we are betrayed by an unfaithful partner, we should leave. Well-meaning friends tend to tell the spouse who was betrayed, “You should leave the bastard!” as if that’s the right, and only, response. But, leaving immediately is a poor

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Valentine’s Day and The Myth That Couples Should Always Be Close

Emotions, Family, Holidays, Relationships / Couples

The common (and incorrect) assumption about relationships is that if we just find the right person, then we’ll always be close. We start in Romantic Love where we can’t get enough of each other. During this early stage of love, we are each other’s most passionate supporter and in sync sexually. Most people believe that

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Yikes! Your Partner Is Angry With You: What Should You Do?

Conflict, Emotions, Long-term relationships, Marriage, Relationships, Self-awareness / Couples

What do you do when your spouse is showing signs of anger? Or it may be really obvious she/he is angry. And what if his/her upset or anger is about you?? You may have been hoping your partner wasn’t angry with you. Most of us want to sidestep conflict. It’s uncomfortable and we may lack

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What Was THAT All About?! Why Your Partner is Freaking Out Over Nothing and What You Can Do About It

Emotions / Couples

Have you ever seen someone have a very strong reaction to something that seems minor? From your perspective, you’re wondering what the big deal is. Why are they getting so upset? Of course, this happens all the time in marriage and other intimate relationships. We see our spouse “freak out” over something small. Often, we

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7 Things You Can Do When your Partner Isn’t Being Supportive

Ways to Stop an Ex from Damaging Your Relationship: Three Guidelines for Communication

Hurt By Hearsay? How Therapy Rebuilds Your Sense of Safety

Get a Grip: How to Keep Emotional Reactions From Hurting Your Marriage

What Was THAT All About?! Why Your Partner is Freaking Out Over Nothing and What You Can Do About it

Rules for Fair Fighting: How to Keep Your Head in the Middle of a Heated Argument

Infidelity: How Working Through it Can STRENGTHEN a Marriage

Valentine’s Day and The Myth That Couples Should Always Be Close

Yikes! Your Partner Is Angry With You: What Should You Do?

What Was THAT All About?! Why Your Partner is Freaking Out Over Nothing and What You Can Do About It

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