Marriage Counseling
Marital counseling, also known as couples counseling and couples therapy, has a positive impact on a couple’s relationship by helping to improve their communication to improve and create stability in their union.
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Marital counseling leads to understanding and acceptance of each other’s behaviors and personalities. It helps couples work together to make thoughtful decisions, overcome differences, and enhance communication.
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Marriage is when two individuals work together in synergy and not against each other. It takes two individuals who are willing and ready to put in the work individually and collectively. In a marriage there must be a mutual level of respect for the natural femininity and masculinity within each person.
Dealing with Marriage Instability
When a marriage is unstable, issues tend to be surrounding the passive masculine or feminine traits of the individual. When the relationship lacks the required nurturing each other needs an imbalance of trust, respect, and loyalty takes root. When left unrecognized and unaddressed, the marriage tends to fail.
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A widespread problem that destabilizes a marriage is lack of understanding of one another. Take, for example, the union of a strong woman and a passive man. Where the woman is raised to embody masculine thinking, she will challenge everything her husband says and does. While the husband who was raised to embody the sensitivity and awareness of feminine thinking will be nurturing and supportive but will not understand what his wife really needs. In these situations the wife is unable to articulate to her husband what she needs, nor does she understand what he needs.
Dealing with a Destabilized Marriage
When couples feel insecure in their marriage, they tend to overcompensate, changing who they are to fit into expectations. They might feel the need to prove they love their partner, but they also expect that love to be reciprocated.
Marriage deteriorates when the couple struggles with poor communication, such as not talking, not listening or always arguing with each other. They then face the possibility of infidelity and lack of true intimacy.
Although they want the relationship to work, they do not know how to make it work. They feel stuck and with that comes a lack of trust. They are left dealing with past traumas that are unresolved and with the inability to forgive past hurts and separate them from the present reality..
Professional Athlete Marriages
When there is a marriage with a professional athlete, specific issues can affect the relationship. Challenges that a couple faces include infidelity, sacrifice, resentment, separation anxiety, and continuous change.
Understanding the “champion’s mentality” is essential to a healthy relationship with a professional athlete. The athlete grows accustomed to receiving excitement and attention from a crowd and thrives off of the adrenaline rush from competing.
Transitioning back home to daily life is difficult, emotionally and mentally because the excitement and constant attention is gone for that time. Without awareness and support, problems during the transition period back home leads to the high need for sex or new sex to recreate the excitement and rush they feel during competition and games.