How to Have a Healthy Relationship

The happiness of your relationship will directly correlate to how happy you feel about your life in general. Since relationships, marriages in particular, become such a significant part of someone’s life, finding happiness and fulfillment in your relationship can lead to improvement in other areas of your life as well.

Discussing The Root Cause of Infidelity in Relationship Therapy

Couples Therapy

Healthy relationships are based on a few key factors

Couples often experience relational problems because of one partner or both partners becoming unfaithful. What is important to understand in this situation is that infidelity usually stems not from a curiosity but from an unfulfilled need in the relationship. Resentment can also be a cause of infidelity, and understanding the root causes can help you learn to address issues as they arise before disconnect and discontent occur.

Understanding How Your Past Affects Your Relationship in Therapy

Your past will ultimately shape the way that you communicate, interact, and treat other people in your life. Your parents’ behavior and/or behavior that you have exhibited yourself in past relationships can have a significant impact on how you deal with issues today. If you constantly withdraw from your partner when an argument arises, this may be a symptom of how you have learned to cope with problems that can be addressed in relationship counseling.

Getting to the Bottom of an Issue in Relationship Counseling

It just doesn’t make sense for couples to get really angry about the small things

Often times, small situations or miscommunications can turn into big issues. Couples may argue about taking out the trash, being late, or a myriad of other things. It just doesn’t make sense for couples to get really angry about these small things, and there is often another underlying issue that is causing the resentment/anger. Your partner may feel disrespected when you don’t take out the trash, and this could be the reason why she gets angrier than you think is necessary. In order to understand how to correct these issues, it is important to use relationship therapy as a tool to get to the bottom of the emotions so that both people can begin to understand where they stem from.

Marriage and Couples Counseling in New York City offers individual, couples, and marriage counseling so that you can begin to communicate in a more positive, productive way with your partner and gain a better understanding of the issues that you have so that you can begin to resolve them. Our counselors can give you expert advice that you can immediately apply to your life in order to see results.