Month: December 2018

Are You In An Unhappy Marriage?

By Mary Ellen Goggin / December 18, 2018
are you in an unhappy marriage

If a confidential survey asked, “Are you in a happy marriage?” would you have an immediate answer? What if it asked, “Are you in an unhappy marriage?” Would you be able to answer “yes” or “no” confidently…and explain your answers? Sometimes the middle ground sounds something like, “Sure, we’re happy….Well, we’re not unnnhappy….” If you’re…

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Why Attend A Marriage Retreat With Counseling

By Mary Ellen Goggin / December 18, 2018
marriage retreat with counseling

Marriage and couples’ therapy is a unique and specialized niche in the world of psychotherapy. And the marriage retreat-with-counseling is an even more specialized niche within the realm of marriage and couples’ therapy. While individual therapy may be ideal when working through your personal history and issues, if your relationship is what ails you, a…

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Why Attend A Marriage Retreat Intensive Weekend

By Mary Ellen Goggin / December 11, 2018
why attend a marriage retreat

No one argues with the need to head out of town for product training or team building for work. But why attend a marriage retreat for something that should just come naturally? After all, this is marriage, not a new software package. Well, okay. But we could get a little cheeky-metaphorical here and suggest that…

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7 Things You Need to Know about Surviving Infidelity in Marriage

By Mary Ellen Goggin / December 11, 2018
surviving infidelity in marriage

Movies would have us believe that infidelity is best handled with clothes-burning and a martini to the face. Surviving infidelity in marriage is more dramatically portrayed as “surviving infidelity by leaving marriage.” (Overplayed, of course, by Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.”) Reality, however, plays out in a different kind of theater and isn’t always so…

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Can You Fix An Unhappy Marriage? Yes, And Here’s How

By Mary Ellen Goggin / December 4, 2018
Can you fix an unhappy marriage? Yes, you can.

How can you fix an unhappy marriage if you don’t even feel any happiness worth fighting for? Unfortunately, most couples wait too long before getting help — an average of six years according to marriage expert John Gottman. By the time many couples find their way onto the therapist’s couch, they have already made up…

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