The Michelangelo phenomenon views each of us like a block of marble, and inside is our ideal self, just waiting to be fully revealed. If you recall Michelangelo said that the sculpture already existed inside the marble, and his job was just to make it visible. Like Michelangelo, our partners can help shape us so that it is this ideal self that emerges in all its fullness and aliveness. That’s interesting to me because its another way of looking at the goals of Imago marriage counseling

The latest Marriage Advice from France is that infidelity may help your marriage. In Imago we love to consider all perspectives, so let’s take a moment to look at what France’s leading psychologist Maryse Vaillant is saying.

Science supports relationship help as a way to strengthen marriages

Marriage Advice, as Elizabeth Weil notes in the New York Times is usually sought out by people who feel they need relationship help.   Many marriage counselors wish that couples would come and see them well before things turn nasty.  John Gottman’s research shows that most us are prepared to put up with six years of anguish before [...]