Japanese innovation leads the world yet again, this time in the field of relationships. Ending them, that is.
Reuter’s reports on ceremonies to end a marriage, held with family and friends around, and even a ceremonial gavel to smash the ring. You aren’t allowed to do that while it’s still on your ex-partner’s finger though.
Alanis Morissette is one of Imago’s fans! So we’re very excited to hear that she married recently in a small private ceremony. So private – that it took the media two weeks to even find out about it. But her relationship success adds a new meaning to the beautiful video she recorded showing her appreciation of [...]
The delight of being a blogger is searching for what to write about. It sends me scouring the internet for articles of interest about couples therapy. And in the process I came across a short blog post on psychology today which really got me thinking. In the post, Joni Johnston PysD talks about three things to consider before giving relationship advice. Since she is the author of the “Complete Idiot’s Guide to Psychology” I like her take on things.
In the earlier post, I wrote about how furious I get when my wife criticises my driving. She feels I’m a bit over-cautious when I change lanes. When she offers this bit of constructive criticism, it gets me livid. How could she criticize my incredibly safe and attentive driving? I stay obsessed about it for hours. I find myself turning around thoughts, finding ways to explain to her once and for all, just how safe and amazing I am as a driver.
Sounds like my problem, right? So how could couples counseling help with something which seems to be mostly about my head going on spin cycle? Shouldn’t I just get my head shrunk so it stays more firmly rooted to reality?
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.
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
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
