Huffington Post reached out to hear a couples therapist's perspective on an interesting new study. Check out the article titled: "This 1 Thing Can Predict If Your Partner is Thinking about Breaking Up".
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/predicting-breakup-with-partner-study_l_6509e370e4b0d32444257b1d
Do therapists give relationship advice? Hopefully, the answer is no. Online couples therapy with a trained couples therapist is an opportunity for you and your partner to engage with each other in a productive and meaningful way.
If you’re googling for quick solutions to solve your entire relationship, you’ll likely get a quick answer. Unfortunately, there is no one “tip” that can save your marriage or relationship. You deserve real answers and real solutions.
Following through on setting up a first couples therapy session with your partner can be tough. Everyone gets there differently. Sometimes you both don’t know what else to do and signing up together is easier. When only one of you feels that the relationship needs guidance it can be harder.
Having worked in-person pre-pandemic, I discovered that genuine therapeutic benefits increase when couples invest in TeleHealth sessions from their own homes.
Imagine learning how to communicate with your partner in an office. Guess when you’ll utilize that new form of communication? The answer is - back in that office.
What to talk about in couples therapy? How to prepare? What not to say? I can’t imagine how nerve-wrecking going into session can be. It’s hard enough to talk about our feelings to a therapist in private, it makes sense it would feel harder with our partner listening.
Thankfully, in our new era of mental health awareness more people are in Therapy. Unfortunately, more corporations, startups, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are interested in turning Therapy into profit. Think of BetterHelp and TalkSpace as the Uber and Lyft of mental health.
This might be the first time you’ve thought about pursuing couples therapy. Maybe you’re thinking about online couples counseling or couples therapy in person. Either way, you don’t know what to expect in couples therapy.
Sometimes a hunch is more than just a hunch: A new study suggests people are relatively good at predicting when their partner wants to end the relationship.
That’s the takeaway from a new study out of the Singapore Management University titled “When one’s partner wants out: Awareness, attachment anxiety and accuracy.”
