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Breaking the Cycle: Overfunctioning and Underfunctioning in Relationships
Feeling like you’re doing too much in your relationship? Or maybe not enough? Learn about overfunctioning and underfunctioning—and how to break the cycle for a healthier, more balanced partnership.

Recognizing Emotional Abuse: Understanding the Hidden Wounds
Emotional abuse is often unrecognized by both the person experiencing it and the one engaging in the behaviors. Understanding these patterns is essential for healing and building healthier relationships.

The Power of Boundaries in Relationships: Why Consequences Matter
Boundaries are essential for healthy relationships, but without consequences, they lose their power. Learn how to create and enforce boundaries with a four-level consequence system to ensure emotional safety and respect in your relationship.

Understanding Projection in Relationships: How to Recognize and Heal
Are you unknowingly projecting your own emotions onto your partner? Learn how to recognize and break free from this common relationship pattern to create deeper connection and trust.

Healing Money Wounds: Understanding Financial Conflicts in Your Relationship
Money conflicts can create stress in relationships, but understanding each other’s financial upbringing can help. Learn how growing up with money abundance, scarcity, or deprivation impacts your relationship and how to work towards financial harmony together.

Using the Values Behavior Exercise to Manage Anger and Increase Personal Choice
Feeling overwhelmed by anger? The Values Behavior Exercise can help you shift from reacting impulsively to responding with intention. Learn how to align your actions with your values and regain control over your emotional responses.

Win-Win in Relationships vs. Zero-Sum: Building Stronger, More Connected Partnerships
Are conflicts in your relationship feeling like a competition? Discover how to move from a zero-sum mindset to a win-win approach, where both partners feel valued, respected, and fulfilled.

The 7 Signs of a Happy and Stable Relationship
Discover the 7 signs of a happy, stable relationship based on Gottman’s research. Learn actionable steps to strengthen your connection and build a fulfilling partnership.

Is Your Relationship at Risk? The 9 Behaviors That Predict Misery
Learn about the nine predictors of misery in relationships, based on Gottman’s research. Discover practical steps to break the cycle and rebuild connection with your partner.

How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It: Understanding the Fear-Shame Cycle
Discover how hidden emotional reactions—fear and shame—drive conflict in marriage and how to break the cycle for a stronger, more connected relationship.

The State Of Our Union: A Weekly Conversation To Strengthen Your Relationship
Keep your relationship strong with the State of Our Union—a simple, weekly check-in to foster connection, appreciation, and healthy communication.

Exploring Emotional Resilience and Communication: A Review of 'Fight Right' by John and Julie Gottman
NOT fighting is a bad option for the relationship. It is all in HOW you fight!

Navigating Your Relationship When Depression Dims the Light of Partnership
Navigating the complexities of emotional trauma within a relationship can often feel overwhelming, but understanding how depression impacts interpersonal dynamics is the first step towards fostering resilience and deeper connection. By seeking guidance on managing depression's effect on a partnership, individuals can access valuable strategies and support that empower both personal growth and healing within the relationship.

The Impact of External Stress on Relationships and How to Mitigate It
Understanding the profound effects of external stress on relationships helps in adopting effective coping strategies that strengthen bonds during challenging times. Explore proven approaches and therapeutic interventions to manage relationship stress and enhance emotional resilience together.

The Line Between Unconditional Love And Lack Of Boundaries
Unconditional love is a nurturing force that accepts and understands without condition, fostering deep connections. However, maintaining healthy boundaries is essential within this love, ensuring it supports both personal growth and emotional well-being. Recognizing and respecting this balance is key to thriving relationships.

Cultivating Connection: Embracing Weekly "State of Our Union" Meetings
Discover the power of connection through weekly "State of Our Union" meetings that foster open communication and deeper bonds in relationships, ensuring every voice is heard and each concern valued. Embrace a simple, structured approach to strengthen your partnership with compassionate communication and proactive engagement in our shared journey of growth and understanding.

Co-Parenting After Divorce: Navigating New Beginnings
Navigating the transition from marriage to co-parenting post-divorce can be complex and emotionally challenging, yet it holds the potential for personal growth and resilience.

Understanding Therapeutic Separation: Guidelines For Time Apart To Heal
Therapeutic Separation offers a pause for reflection and growth within a relationship, aiming to support healing and mutual understanding. It is a structured break, guided by therapy, designed not as a path toward ending the relationship but as a means to strengthen and potentially rejuvenate it.

Time and Connection in Marriage
Understanding the complexities of shared time in marriage is crucial. Our expertise guides couples to foster deeper connections and manage conflicts, building a resilient partnership.

Unveiling the Conversation Beneath the Conflict
Discover how transforming conflict into meaningful dialogue can deepen understanding and strengthen your relationships with insights from the Gottman Method. Learn practical strategies for navigating emotional challenges and fostering connection in times of disagreement.