Nurturing Love and Growth: Why a Couples Therapy Retreat is Worth the Investment
In the journey of love, relationships inevitably face challenges and hurdles. While some issues can be resolved within the comforts of home, others may benefit from a dedicated and immersive approach. That's where couples therapy retreats come in. These retreats offer a unique opportunity for couples to invest in their relationship, providing a supportive and transformative environment for growth. In this article, we will explore why a couples therapy retreat is worth the investment and how it can enrich your relationship in profound ways.
How to Identify Your Partner's Attachment Style Early On?
Understanding your partner's attachment style is crucial for building a healthy and fulfilling relationship. Attachment styles are deeply ingrained patterns of behavior that develop in childhood and affect the way individuals relate to others in romantic relationships. By recognizing your partner's attachment style early on, you can gain valuable insights into their emotional needs, communication patterns, and expectations.
Maintaining or finding the spark with a long-time partner
Maintaining or finding the spark with a long-time partner is important to a healthy and fulfilling relationship. Over time, the initial excitement and passion may naturally wane, but there are several strategies you can employ to reignite the spark and keep the relationship vibrant.
The many ways we bid for connection, and the best ways to respond to those bids.
Bidding to connect is the cornerstone of keeping a relationship connected. Couple’s also need to be mindful of how they turn towards their partner’s bids. When bids are clear and met with loving kindness, you are living in a more positive space and enjoying a more positive relationship.
Intentional Vacation
Have you ever gone on a long waited for vacation with your partner full of expectations of intimacy and quality time only to find yourself watching the sunset alone or sitting in silence at a very fancy, very expensive dinner?
It happens, A LOT. I hear about it in sessions once a couple has returned. So much disappointment, and so much time and money that was wasted because couples were not intentional, realistic or communicative when they planned this vacation.
I am on a mission to bring intentional vacations to couples, vacations that include, wait for it.....couples therapy!!!
Listen, enjoy and then book your intentional vacation with a side of couples therapy.
Creating Positive Sentiment
Bring Good Vibes Only when re connecting with your partner, be intentional with how you show up. This does not mean that we do not talk about difficult things, it means that even then, we are bringing the good vibes only. Listen to get a better idea of ways to be more intentional in creating positive sentiment in your relationship.
The reason affection gets shut down so quickly and ways to create more intentional “affection for the sake of affection” moments.
After we say “I do” and bring little humans into the world, affection in marriages tends too plummet. We have less of the make out sessions, or long hugs that we once engaged in. Which means that we start to assume things about the other which are of course usually wrong, and the result is even less affection, hurt feelings and mis understandings.
Tone of voice; the ultimate non verbal way contempt creeps into a marriage.
Tone of voice has a huge impact on a relationship, usually in the negative. It is a way to non verbally show contempt towards your partner which is the number 1 predictor of divorce according to Dr. John Gottman and his research with The Gottman Institute.
Why couples need to ritualize time to give and receive appreciations and ways to do so.
Most couples feel disconnected and unappreciated from one another for what they contribute to the family and combined life. Appreciation is something we often think, but don’t say. Learn a few reasons why appreciations are so valuable in adding deposits to your emotional bank account, as well as, ways to ritualized giving and receiving appreciations.