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“I Don’t Care If I Ever Have Sex Again” – What This Really Means and Why It Matters
If sex feels like duty or you’ve lost desire, you’re not alone. Here’s how to address physical and emotional sexual needs and rebuild connection.
Impulse vs. Intention: Learning to Pause in Recovery
In sex addiction recovery, impulsivity often drives relapse. This post explores how to pause, slow down urges, and build daily rhythms that support long-term healing.
When Reactivity Is a Trauma Response
After betrayal, impulsive reactivity can feel like the only option. This post explores why trauma drives impulsive behaviors—and how stabilizing practices help you begin to heal.
How to Stop Saying Things You Regret
Impulsive words can damage connection in conflict. Learn how to recognize emotional flooding, pause with intention, and use Gottman tools to repair before regret takes over.
Repair That Lasts: Series Recap How Real Repair Rebuilds Safety, One Step at a Time
In this recap of our Repair That Lasts series, we explore how couples can heal after rupture—whether they stay together or not. Includes practical takeaways, journaling prompts, and next steps for building emotional safety through meaningful repair.
Can We Repair If We Might Still Leave?
Repair is possible—even when the relationship’s future is uncertain. This post explores how repair brings clarity and healing in the discernment process.
Repairing the Bond After Emotional Disconnection
Repair after disconnection starts with vulnerability. This post explores how EFT helps couples heal the bond and find their way back to closeness.
The Gottman Repair Checklist in Action
Gottman’s Repair Checklist is more than a script—it’s a relational lifeline. Learn how to use it in a way that builds safety, trust, and real connection.
Blending Isn’t Instant: How Therapy Supports Stepparents and Stepchildren in the Hard Work of Becoming Family
Blended families bring hope—and complexity. This post explores how therapy supports stepparents, stepchildren, and couples through the real-life challenges of building connection, navigating loyalty binds, and creating a new family culture. Whether you're just starting out or still finding your rhythm, relational healing takes time—and help. You're not behind. You're becoming.
Repairing After Relapse
Repair after relapse takes more than sobriety. This post explores how to rebuild safety and trust through consistent action and emotional honesty.
When the Nest Empties and the Distance Shows: How Therapy Helps Couples Reconnect After Years of Drifting
Many couples stay married until the kids leave home—only to find themselves disconnected and uncertain. This post explores how therapy can help partners reconnect in the empty nest years by healing emotional distance, rebuilding intimacy, and casting a new vision for the next chapter. It’s never too late to turn toward each other again.
When Sorry Isn’t Safe Yet After Betrayal
In the aftermath of betrayal, repair can’t be rushed. This post explores why safety must come before closeness—and how real repair is lived out, not just spoken.
What Makes a Real Repair in a Relationship?
Repair is more than saying “I’m sorry”—it’s how we rebuild trust and connection after hurt. Learn what effective repair looks like and how to practice it together.
Before You Say “I Do”: Why Premarital Counseling Helps You Build a Marriage That Lasts
Marriage is more than a beautiful day—it’s a life built together. In this post, we explore how premarital counseling helps couples strengthen communication, navigate important conversations, and prepare for a meaningful, connected future.
Trust as a Daily Practice: Series Recap
This series recap brings together all six posts from our Trust as a Daily Practice series. Whether you’re rebuilding trust or learning to live it out daily, this reflection offers insights, prompts, and reminders that trust grows from the inside out.
If You Stay: Why Trust Will Need Daily Care After a Crossroads
When couples choose to stay after a relationship crisis, trust doesn’t automatically return. This post explores how daily repair and mutual effort create a new path forward.
The Emotional Bond Needs Reinforcement: Why Trust Isn’t One and Done
In Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), trust isn’t a one-time achievement—it’s a cycle that must be reinforced through emotional responsiveness and repair. This post explores how attachment patterns shape adult relationships and why repeated moments of presence are essential for lasting trust. Whether you’re navigating disconnection or rebuilding after betrayal, EFT offers a pathway back to safety and connection.
Gottman’s Trust Metric: Why Trust Needs Constant Tending
Trust isn’t built in grand gestures—it’s built in everyday connection. This post unpacks how the Gottman Method helps couples rebuild and sustain trust from the inside out.
Are You Still Auditioning for Love? Why Commitment Brings Out the Best in Us
When one partner isn’t fully committed, the whole relationship can feel like an audition. This post explores how uncertainty erodes emotional safety—and why secure commitment brings out the best in both partners.
The Work Doesn’t End: Why Trust Needs Maintenance in Recovery
Sex addiction recovery begins with sobriety, but trust is rebuilt in the choices you make every day. This post explores how emotional integrity creates safety and connection that lasts.