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Techniques to Grow Your Relationships this Valentine’s Day

February 11, 2021 by Jennifer Rego, MSW, LICSW

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How do you express love and feel loved? Love languages are everywhere in our literature and media. We are inundated with ways to help your partner or yourself. This pandemic, whether you have a partner or not, think of ways to connect even more during this time. Techniques to Improve Intimacy Our job is not… CONTINUE

Filed Under: About Us, Articles, Blog, Education, Inspiration, Newsletter, Relationship Tagged With: couples, Jennifer Rego, marriage, relationship, Valentine's Day

Couples Counseling: Getting More from Your Partner

February 6, 2019 by James Robbins, M.A., LPC

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by James Robbins, Licensed Counselor and Relationship Expert Couples generally come to couples counseling wanting more from their partner. Maybe you want more quality time, more trust, more physical intimacy, more positive feedback. Whatever you’re wanting more of, you’ve probably expressed this to your partner time and again, in different words and with a variety… CONTINUE

Filed Under: Articles, Blog, Education, Inspiration, Newsletter, Relationship Tagged With: career coaching, couples, couples counseling, Dallas Whole Life Counseling, James Robbins, relationship

Who’s Winning Your Relationship?

January 22, 2018 by James Robbins, M.A., LPC

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Romantic relationships tend to revolve around power struggles. Even when you manage to resolve a longstanding issue–sex, money, parenting, in-laws, quality time, whatever–another one tends to pop up to take its place. This is because power struggles aren’t really about particular content so much as the need to be right, the need to win. Ultimately, no… CONTINUE

Filed Under: About Us, Articles, Blog, Inspiration, Newsletter, Relationship Tagged With: couples, power, power struggle, relationship, resentment

3 Keys to a Successful Relationship

March 8, 2017 by Ruth Okeefe

by James Robbins, M.A., LPC Collectively, my wife and I share about 40 years experience working with couples from all walks of life. We were recently talking shop, discussing what factors we see most consistently in the happiest, healthiest couples. Here are the Big Three: Steady chemical base Here, I’m calling a “chemical” anything you consume. Medication,… CONTINUE

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Should You Plan Your Next Argument?

December 11, 2016 by Ruth Okeefe

by James Robbins, M.A., LPC When is your next argument scheduled? I often ask this question of couples, but it also applies to families, co-workers, friends. You argue the most with the people closest to you, and most of these arguments follow a fairly predictable pattern. I know, I know–you don’t plan these arguments. But… CONTINUE

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The Relationship Prison

September 9, 2016 by Ruth Okeefe

by James Robbins, M.A., LPC Suppose you wake up in a prison cell, where you discover your only cell mate: the person you got you sentenced to prison, and for a crime you didn’t commit. What’s the fair thing to do? The fair thing is for your cell mate to take responsibility, to say “I… CONTINUE

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Show Appreciation — Even if You Have to Fake it at First

August 24, 2016 by Ruth Okeefe

by James Robbins, M.A., LPC If you’re in a serious romantic relationship and you’re not complimenting your partner every day, you’re missing the low-hanging fruit. Relationships are hard work, but this part can be easy–if you let it.   So your spouse can’t keep a job. This is a problem. But your spouse also makes… CONTINUE

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How Couples Counseling Helps Couples Work Through Issues

July 24, 2016 by Ruth Okeefe

Couples counseling helps couples work through their issues in a number of ways. For example, when most couples come to counseling they’ve experienced some issues, some struggles around communication, they find that they’re in some stale issues where they just go round and round in arguments. What we refer to in couples counseling are scripts… CONTINUE

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Is Communication Really the Problem?

July 3, 2016 by Ruth Okeefe

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by James Robbins, M.A., LPC In the fifteen years I’ve been working with couples, the vast majority of initial couples sessions begin the same way. We’ve been together X years, and we really love each other. When things are good, they’re really good–but when things are bad they’re really bad. Lately, small fights turns into… CONTINUE

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Right Here, Right Now: Can You Show Me Where It Hurts?

June 21, 2016 by Ruth Okeefe

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by James Robbins, M.A., LPC In this exact moment, what seems to be the problem? Can you show me here it hurts? Money issues? I hear you. But right now, if you could triple the money in your bank account, what good would it do you? Would you be reading this on a bigger screen?… CONTINUE

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