If you’re like so many modern couples, your lives run at full speed, with little time to see each other between work, activities, kids, responsibilities, and more. Or, that is to say—your lives used to run at full speed.

You don’t have to be alive for long on this earth to figure out that love is hard. From elementary school crushes that go south within a few days and on throughout adulthood, relationships are difficult. You probably know many marriages that you thought would never end in divorce, and yet, they did.

The work of couples counselor Terry Real has provided new understandings of the role of boundaries in healthy relationships (as recently discussed here on my previous blog post).

You’ve probably heard about the importance of boundaries when it comes to our emotional health as individuals. The same applies when it comes to relationships.

Few things—indeed, perhaps nothing—can devastate a relationship like infidelity.

We like to believe that our marriages or partnerships are a place of emotional safety and security. In a world that can be lonely and hard, we yearn for the warmth and trust of a…

Your relationship doesn’t have to be nearing divorce for you to consider couples counseling. In fact, seeking counseling early on can prevent problems from becoming increasingly intractable and painful.

Whether you’ve been together for a year or for decades, at some point you may find yourself wondering if you need to seek couples counseling. Even though the term sometimes carries a negative connotation, it doesn’t have to mean that your relationship is doomed to fail.

Roommates are fine. Roommates are polite. And admittedly, they are a nice, basic way to secure a bit of companionship and split the household chores. But roommates don’t really miss each other when they don’t connect. In fact, they may only…