Positive Fighting
Positive Fighting Did you know that some of the couples who seem angriest with each other may have a satisfying marriage? At times you might not feel like that when you are around them. But they may not tell you … Continue reading
Category Archives: Marriage
Marriage Counseling: Making a Good Relationship Better
Scroll Down Below to Find Articles about each of These Major Topics
By Dr. Jim Walkup, Marital Therapist in New York City and Westchester
- Learning to Communicate Better
- Strengthen Your Relationship
- Anger Management
- How Marriage Counseling Helps
- Importance of Contact Time in Your Relationship
- Pregnancy: Danger Zone for Your Marriage
- Reconciling Cross Cultural or Ethnic Differences
- Extramarital Affair Recovery
Learning to Communicate Better: The first thing people usually say at the beginning of marriage counseling is that they need to learn to communicate better.
- When You Want To Listen
- Asking In A Way That Works
- Fourteen Exercises to Grow Your Marriage
- Listening So That Your Partner Will Feel Heard
Strengthening Your Relationship: Building a new marriage relationship requires focusing on how your partner experiences your interactions. In order to feel close, marriage need to engage in five good interactions for every negative one.
- Magic Phrases for Making Your Relationship Work
- Lean on Me, But Not Too Much
- Marriage Saving Phrases
Anger Management: Failure to deal with anger effectively causes many couples to withdraw to islands of invulnerability. They lose a deep sense of closeness.
- Positive Fighting
- Not a Teachable Moment
- Recognizing a Lose-Lose Fight and Stopping It
- Breathing and Anger Management
- Fighting Is Not All Bad
- What Men Do Instead of Sharing Feelings
Time: Couples with children and dual career couples need to learn how to protect their marriage from lack of time spent with each other. Time management includes scheduling time together.
How Marriage Counseling Helps: Frequently couples wait too long to seek help because they do not understand how it could help.
- Frequently Asked Questions about Relationship Or Marriage Counseling
- Hesitance to Call for an Appointment
Special Issues and Resources: Click on any of the subjects below to find help with spcific problems.
- Pregnancy: Danger Zone for Your Marriage
- Exercises for Building Your Marriage for a Lifetime
- Twelve Myths About Relationships
- The Challenges of ADD in Marriage
- Questionnaires
- Extramarital Affair Recovery
- Snoringor Sleeping with a Snorer
10 Don’ts
10 Don’ts For Working Through Your Cultural Differences 1. Don’t take personally the differences that seem normal to your partner. 2. Don’t side with your family against your partner. Seek to help your partner understand the importance of rituals, customs, … Continue reading
Do’s For A Cross Culture
10 Do’s for Developing Understanding in a Cross Cultural Marriage 1. Do take time to continue to be fascinated by the differences 2. Do learn all you can about the development of your partner’s culture 3. Seek to brainstorm about … Continue reading
Cross Culture Differences
Cross Cultural Differences “One of the challenges of relationship is to forgive the other for being different.” -Dr. Walkup Understanding your own family culture seems like a strange thing to do. You may feel like a fish who is asked … Continue reading
