As well as lack of sleep, and 24/7 demands from a new little person, having a baby alters the dynamics of your relationship. Becoming a family is a m…

“When I fall in love it will be forever” is the Nat King Cole hit that perhaps we all aspire to at the start of a relationship. We want to find a par…

The state of our relationships can often be used as an effective barometer for the state of our lives as a whole. Unsatisfactory relationships can le…

In a relationship support and control often have opposite meaning.  Control indicates that one person to some extent is in charge, perhaps the author…

Many therapists are increasingly hearing their male clients, or couples, highlight internet porn as a problem for them.  This is not surprising give…

After a period of time together, it is very common for relationships to begin to become predictable or dull.  Communication can lapse, we can forget…

Back as a young woman (some might say child!) of nineteen years of age I promised myself to a young man and set out to live the happy-ever-after. Tha…

Achieving good relationships is difficult. Why shouldn't it be? Most everything else worthwhile achieving in life is.Remember when you started out le…

In most relationships the sexual drive or libido is different in the partners. Of course, often when we start a relationship it feels like it will la…

Reflecting on past cases in counselling, anger seems to be a reoccurring issue in couple relationships. It appears in many forms of behaviour and som…

Counsellors sometimes find an individual in their consulting room who has been ‘sent’ by their partner to sort themselves out so that the relationshi…

Lovers strolling hand in hand along a sandy beach; smiley children playing in turquoise swimming pools; intimate, candlelit dinners for two … Picture…