Marriage Counseling

5 Tips For Surviving Infidelity Triggers No Matter When They Strike

By Mary Ellen Goggin / January 31, 2019
Woman struggling with surviving infidelity triggers.

Surviving infidelity can feel impossible, infuriating, exhausting, not-worth-the-effort. And that’s the moment you wake up and remember what’s going on. Surviving infidelity triggers can feel like having coarse salt rubbed into a wound that never gets to heal. For the betrayed spouse, such a Promethean punishment can make the idea of love, trust and happiness…

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How To Select A Marriage Retreat For Couples In Crisis

By Mary Ellen Goggin / January 24, 2019
How to select a marriage retreat for couples in crisis

A powerful alternative to traditional weekly marriage therapy is a marriage retreat. For couples in crisis, this format can offer an intensive, highly effective start to a sustainable healing journey. Selecting a Therapist Selecting a therapist is an important process for anyone considering psychotherapy. Sometimes the “first impression” of the process can leave a lasting…

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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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Can Marriage Counseling Help Your Relationship? It Helped Michelle Obama’s.

By Mary Ellen Goggin / November 19, 2018
Michelle and Barak Obama use marriage counseling to keep their relationship healthy

Couples don’t always realize the damage they do to their marriage when they don’t talk through their problems. They hold back from expressing negative feelings such as anger, fear, and disappointment. When couples let unexpressed negative feelings accumulate, they unwittingly build  is a wall between them. Each time an unresolved conflict goes unaddressed, a brick is added to the wall. The bigger the wall , the harder  it is for couples to talk and feel close.  Disconnection puts the relationship at risk.

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Create a Relationship You Love

By Jerry / January 28, 2018

Welcome. We’re excited you are here. Make yourself at home. roam around, and gather some helpful information. We launched our blog to begin a conversation about relationships in the 21st Century. We want to build a community of people who want to be crazy in love with their relationship. We hope that together we can…

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Marriage Retreat: Tune-up for a smooth ride

By Mary Ellen Goggin / July 18, 2016

 At a dinner party the other night, an attractive 40-something woman asked me what I do.  I told her that I work with couples who want more satisfying relationships. “You mean you’re a therapist? I don’t believe in therapy. What’s the point?” she scoffed. “My husband and I were married 20 years ago. We’ve never…

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Marriage Counseling Can Transform Your Relationship

By Mary Ellen Goggin / April 5, 2013

A Marriage Counseling Retreat Can Transform Your Relationship Marriage and Couples Counseling can be successful given the right ingredients: readiness, right timing, and resonance with a marriage counselor (and better yet, a counselor couple) who is experienced, knowledgeable, and highly skilled. Private intensive weekend retreats with the right mix of elements can be even more…

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