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How Emotional Memory Shapes Your Relationship
Emotional memory can affect how you connect with your partner. Learn how it influences your relationship and how couples therapy can help you overcome challenges and grow closer.

Unspoken Family Rules: How Your Past Shapes Your Marriage
Our family upbringing shapes our marriage in ways we often don’t realize. Learn how unspoken family rules impact your relationship and how to create new, healthy patterns with your partner.

Boundaries in Marriage: Staying in Your Lane and Respecting Autonomy
Healthy boundaries in marriage help prevent resentment and create a balanced relationship. Learn how to avoid over/under-functioning and respect your spouse’s autonomy.

Book Review of Coupleship Inc: From Financial Conflict to Financial Intimacy
Money is a common source of stress in marriage, but it doesn’t have to be. Coupleship Inc. teaches couples how to treat their relationship like a business to improve communication and financial harmony.

Building a Stronger Relationship Through Friendship: Gottman’s Sound Relationship House
Friendship is the key to lasting love. Learn how love maps, admiration, and emotional bids strengthen your relationship and keep your connection alive.

How Money Scripts Influence Your Relationship (And How to Overcome Conflict)
Money scripts shape how we handle finances in relationships—sometimes causing conflicts. Learn how to recognize and navigate these differences for a healthier financial future together.

The Power of Open-Ended Questions in Your Relationship
Improve your relationship communication by shifting from statements and yes/no questions to open-ended questions. Learn how these questions foster curiosity, collaboration, and deeper intimacy with your partner.

Breaking the Cycle: Overfunctioning and Underfunctioning in Relationships
Feeling like you’re doing too much in your relationship? Or maybe not enough? Learn about overfunctioning and underfunctioning—and how to break the cycle for a healthier, more balanced partnership.

Recognizing Emotional Abuse: Understanding the Hidden Wounds
Emotional abuse is often unrecognized by both the person experiencing it and the one engaging in the behaviors. Understanding these patterns is essential for healing and building healthier relationships.

The Power of Boundaries in Relationships: Why Consequences Matter
Boundaries are essential for healthy relationships, but without consequences, they lose their power. Learn how to create and enforce boundaries with a four-level consequence system to ensure emotional safety and respect in your relationship.

Understanding Projection in Relationships: How to Recognize and Heal
Are you unknowingly projecting your own emotions onto your partner? Learn how to recognize and break free from this common relationship pattern to create deeper connection and trust.

Healing Money Wounds: Understanding Financial Conflicts in Your Relationship
Money conflicts can create stress in relationships, but understanding each other’s financial upbringing can help. Learn how growing up with money abundance, scarcity, or deprivation impacts your relationship and how to work towards financial harmony together.

Using the Values Behavior Exercise to Manage Anger and Increase Personal Choice
Feeling overwhelmed by anger? The Values Behavior Exercise can help you shift from reacting impulsively to responding with intention. Learn how to align your actions with your values and regain control over your emotional responses.

Win-Win in Relationships vs. Zero-Sum: Building Stronger, More Connected Partnerships
Are conflicts in your relationship feeling like a competition? Discover how to move from a zero-sum mindset to a win-win approach, where both partners feel valued, respected, and fulfilled.

The 7 Signs of a Happy and Stable Relationship
Discover the 7 signs of a happy, stable relationship based on Gottman’s research. Learn actionable steps to strengthen your connection and build a fulfilling partnership.

Is Your Relationship at Risk? The 9 Behaviors That Predict Misery
Learn about the nine predictors of misery in relationships, based on Gottman’s research. Discover practical steps to break the cycle and rebuild connection with your partner.

How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It: Understanding the Fear-Shame Cycle
Discover how hidden emotional reactions—fear and shame—drive conflict in marriage and how to break the cycle for a stronger, more connected relationship.

The State Of Our Union: A Weekly Conversation To Strengthen Your Relationship
Keep your relationship strong with the State of Our Union—a simple, weekly check-in to foster connection, appreciation, and healthy communication.

Exploring Emotional Resilience and Communication: A Review of 'Fight Right' by John and Julie Gottman
NOT fighting is a bad option for the relationship. It is all in HOW you fight!

Navigating Your Relationship When Depression Dims the Light of Partnership
Navigating the complexities of emotional trauma within a relationship can often feel overwhelming, but understanding how depression impacts interpersonal dynamics is the first step towards fostering resilience and deeper connection. By seeking guidance on managing depression's effect on a partnership, individuals can access valuable strategies and support that empower both personal growth and healing within the relationship.