Marriage

"Family therapy has many different approaches and Bowenian Family Therapy is one of the most popular."

"Our beliefs of what love is and how we show it, comes from our past experiences. "

"Many of us mistake love to be only a feeling."

"We all have unique patterns of expressing hurt, anger, sadness, disappointment, resentment or rage during a fight. Sometimes these emotions can erupt intensely only with our spouse and no other human on earth"

"Experiencing a feeling of being stuck in our intimate relationships can be very frustrating."

"It is important to understand that sometimes we may have high expectations because we obviously want to choose the best from what we’ve got."

"There is no perfect formula to make a marriage work. Both arranged and love marriages have their own strengths and faults."

"Family power can be defined as the ability of one individual to change the behavior of the other family members."

"The value of healthy open communication in any relationship, especially a marriage, can never be overstated. Prolonged communication problems between spouses can end up seriously damaging a relationship as neither partner truly understands what the other is like."

"The good news is that it is always possible to improve our marriage and make it even stronger by simply becoming aware of each other’s most important emotional needs, those needs that brought us together in the first place, and then learning how to meet them."

"Boundaries make me recognize that I am the person responsible for my feelings – if I allow my partner to sway them, it is precisely because I have allowed that!"

"Psychologist Constance Ahrons, best selling author on books on divorce, describes five overlapping stages of this adjustment process to a divorce"