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…

There are Dramas played out in nearly every family or relationship. Some are loud and dramatic, some are silent. When I speak of Drama I mean a speci…

It can take a good deal of courage to talk with a perfect stranger about your personal life. Yet for some people having someone neutral to talk thing…

It is tempting to compare our relationships to others; perhaps this couple seems to go out more, or that couple is more loving in public, or perhaps…

Very few people escape painful relationship issues in their lives. Death, serious injury, financial issues...all are very real issues in today’s soci…

Increasingly couples are seeking counselling to help with problems in their relationships and marriages. The reasons for conflict are many and varied…

Since the passage of time, men and women have been having affairs. The reasons are multi-layered and often intertwined, from sexual boredom and frust…

This short piece is about how we can be very caught up in the content of what we are saying to our partner, but sometimes the process of how we are s…

Most of us would have experienced that dreadful moment in time when the relationship with our partner somehow feels different: heavy, difficult, guil…