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John Gerson - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
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- What to Do If Your Spouse Won't Go to Counseling
[Relationships:Conflict] The scenario of one spouse recognizing that therapy might be useful to look at a troubled relationship while the other is resistant has several possible explanations. It may be that your partner may be too anxious as a product of interpreting your request for counseling as a sign that the relationship is in serious danger, and may only have the strength to defend against the anxiety by denial and non-participation. Your partner may also feel too threatened by the notion that he or she is to blame for your relationship difficulties, and visualizes a therapy session as ...
- Enhancing Marital Communication
[Relationships:Enhancement] I'd like to begin with the following vignette. It's fictional, but contains communication snafu's that, although probably unintentional, can be wounding. How the wound is dealt with can determine if its effects are short-lived or if they become part of the catalog of complaints that one spouse holds and remembers about the other.
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