Is marriage bad for couples therapists?
Here are some stunning facts from a study from the Jubilee Center, a UK-based Christian organization, who says that married parents are nearly 10 times more likely to stay together than un-married parents.
Here are some stunning facts from a study from the Jubilee Center, a UK-based Christian organization, who says that married parents are nearly 10 times more likely to stay together than un-married parents.
That’s why the workshop/therapy combination can work quickly (two-days for a big change), be lower-cost (you would need a lot of therapy sessions to cover the workshop material), and more effective (the therapy helps re-inforce the workshop).
Ah! Valentine’s Day – once dedicated to the patron saint of love, but it seems that the patron saint of greed might be elbowing his way in. Ever had that experience? Well, here’s another approach from Imago.
With so many relationship problems in the world, we could do without a new one. But according to Leslie Kaufman writing in the New York Times saving the planet might mean ditching your relationship.
My wife follows my blog, and asked me the other day if I felt we needed relationship help. “It sure sounds it from the way you write your posts” she said. “Is everything OK?”
Tara Parker-Pope writing in the New York Times today notes that the very nature of marriage is shifting. That’s also a central theme from Dr. Harville Hendrix, Imago co-founder, who believes that the statistics of marriage breakdown simply indicate a shift to a new model of marriage, and a new role for marriage in society
Imago Dialogue for couples is something quite specific and quite structured. At least, its best for it to be structured when you are just learning it, and whenever the subject is hard. Oh! We’re talking about the field of intimate relationships- the subject has a tendency to be quite tricky, don’t you find?!
Weiner travelled to the world’s happiest places and told WorldHum that “Many countries around the world seem to grasp this notion that happiness is relational—that we derive much of our joy from our connections to other people
In these interactive Relationship Quizzes, instead of checking off boxes on a form, you get to talk with an Avatar, who sympathetically asks you about some of your past emotional experience, especially in the home where you grew up.
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