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Honey, Let’s Go To Couples Counseling…I Want To Break Up

Most of the people consider individual counseling and couple counseling as the same thing while the fact is that they are quite contrary. In the former, only the issues of a single person have to be solved whereas in the latter, issues of both the partners have to be solved simultaneously.

Though the commenter’s statement may be true for some people (as it clearly is for him), I know of many long term marriages that still have huge amounts of fondness, friendship and connectedness. I’ve seen examples of this in my own extended family and in the parents of some of my closest friends. Not only that – if I looked at life through this lens, I probably wouldn’t have chosen a career in family counselling services singapore. I am inherently optimistic about the power people have to change – if change is what they desire.

If you decide that you do not want to get back with your ex you should have no problem getting over the break up. But I don’t think you are willing to let that relationship go, do you?

So one of the main lessons is to own our own feelings. It takes a bit of practice but it’s worth it and very powerful. It then takes away the need for someone to be right and someone to be wrong.

When a marriage is in trouble, one of the first things people do is to go to family and friends for advice. Sometimes this isn’t the best idea. Family and friends should be there for support – someone to lean on, someone to listen. Why not for advice?

Bullock had asked Jesse periodically throughout the marriage if he was cheating. She had her suspicions which were put to rest by Jesse’s reassurance that he was not cheating on her. The only thing Sandra Bullock was guilty of in this marriage was trusting a man she truly loved. When her trust was betrayed, it was over for Sandra.

The role of the counsellor in relationship counselling is that of facilitator. He or she is not a judge and does not do the actual work, that’s down to the couple. The counsellor is there to facilitate the couple to understand what the real issues are, where they come from and what needs to be changed if the relationship is to be improved. But the work itself is done by the couple.