Sometimes a simple disagreement or dispute between couples can spiral out of control creating a foreboding separation that only couple’s counseling can rectify. What starts as a small dispute can quickly grow thorny, driving each other apart, when couples do not know how to communicate effectively with each other.
Couples Therapy Can Help
When communication breaks down within a marriage or relationship an insidious feeling of impending separation can further distract the partners from their need to communicate. Coping with fears of abandonment, anticipatory grief, and other dark emotions that erupt when thoughts of separation loom can easily distract you from the simple need to communicate with your partner. When emotions and fears run wild, the relationship is put into even more jeopardy as each of the partners begins to react to their emotions instead of responding to their partner.
Couples or marriage therapy can help partners learn how to communicate effectively with each other in order to mitigate the long-term effects of disagreements and disputes. Couples or marriage counseling can also help partners cope with the barrage of negative feelings that overwhelmed them while they were unable to communicate clearly to their partners. The domino effect of a single unresolved dispute can lead to years of unhappiness and misunderstanding. Therapy can help stop those dominos from falling and instead allowing partners to create a beautiful relationship built on clear communication.
Knowing Where To Start
Within the press of negative emotions surrounding a dispute and an inability to communicate, it can be difficult for a couple to figure out where to start the journey back to a healthy relationship. Bridging the communication gap is paramount to a successful and healthy relationship. Often couples will need a counselor to guide them through the process of not only learning how to communicate with each other but resolving the dispute and dissipating the swirling vortex of negative emotion that evolved as collateral damage from the inability to communicate.
An experienced counselor like the one here at Life Change Therapy can act as a beacon that sheds light on the couple’s dispute allowing them to reframe it and discover a successful solution. Building a successful relationship requires skill in communication that often a counselor is the best person to assist couples in learning how to communicate with each other while healing the damage that a lack of communication did to their relationship. If you are having trouble with disputes, disagreements, or communication in your relationship reach out to Life Changes Therapy.
