After more than 12 years of helping couples navigate conflict, heal, and reconnect, we've developed our own proven Relationship Recovery Model. This framework helps couples spend less time stuck in painful cycles, learn effective repair skills, and intentionally build more connection, intimacy, and harmony in their relationship.
Often, couples come to marriage counseling practice because they fight too much. This is usually because they can’t talk to each other without one or both partners becoming angry or defensive. Most likely, this has been going on for a while. A couple of reasons...
Marriage is a three-legged race—if one person pulls, both struggle. This post explains why control backfires, what power-with truly looks like, and how repair helps couples move forward together.
The first answer to this question is that men often haven’t been taught other modes of expression. Author and speaker Terry Real writes that our society teaches men that they can have two emotions: anger and lust. This doesn’t give men much to work with.
Conflict isn't the problem — intensity is. Learn practical communication tools for couples: self-regulation, the Feedback Wheel, emotional intelligence, and more.
Intense Conflict Is: How to Disagree Better Differences can cause conflict. The goal isn’t to avoid disagreements. It’s to lessen the intensity, resolve issues quickly, and use your differences to strengthen the relationship rather than weaken it.