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Communication Skills for Couples: The Power of I-Statements

Hurt feelings don’t have to turn into huge fights. This relationship hack saves so much heartache and makes sure you’ll be heard and understood like never before. Here’s how to harness the power of I-statements
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10 Signs You And Your Partner May Want to Consider Relationship Counseling

How do you know if you need relationship help? These are the 10 signs you and your partner should speak with an expert.
Relationship stages

How to Have a Successful Relationship With Different Parenting Styles

Navigating differences in parenting styles between partners is a common challenge. Unique backgrounds, beliefs, and experiences come into play, leading to conflicts in raising children together. This crucial topic can cause even easygoing couples to feel serious distress. Let's explore effective strategies to cultivate a harmonious parenting dynamic.
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Resolutions to Build a Strong Relationship

Goodbye, larger-than-life unachievable goals. Looking for some simple ways to improve your relationship in the new year? Check out these five achievable resolution ideas and start 2023 right. This year, let's set ourselves up for success.
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10 Tips to Prepare For Your First Couples Counselling Session

Attending your first relationship guidance session can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to! Here are 10 tips to help you prepare for your first couples therapy/relationship guidance session.
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6 Unsexy Things to do in a Relationship for Better Sex

Much attention is given to sex in our relationship. So we often use sex as the relationship health barometer. Are we having it? Is it good? Are we having it enough? If I don’t want it, is that normal? Then we place values on the answers to these questions - determining and interpreting things about ourselves, our partner and our relationship - based on sex. But here’s the thing, the way we understand sex, is actually not personal.
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Personal Things to Work on in a Relationship to be a Better Partner

We’ve inherited so many things from our family which influence our core beliefs, behaviors, and our relationships - big time. But unlike our genes, becoming aware of our core beliefs and how they influence our behavior can help us reflect on whether they serve or limit us. And then we can choose to make a change.
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Healthy Relationship Tips: Celebrate the No

Saying no isn’t bad - it’s an important skill in every relationship Relationships require a lot from us, but they don’t require us to lose ourselves in them. How can we stay close to each other while still being true to ourselves? This is where people struggle most so often stuck in the belief that boundaries are meant to keep *the bad stuff* out, why do we need to put up boundaries with our loved ones? But we do. And here’s why.