Relationship Advice

Why do we need relationship advice?

Most adults spend the major part of their life in an intimate relationship. The fact that you are visiting this site probably means that you are either experiencing relationship problems or in the process of starting a new relationship.

Relationships are potentially very satisfying; they protect us from loneliness and improve our physical and mental health. A two-parent family is also the most successful setting for the care and upbringing of children. But it is not all plain sailing, and there are an enormous number of problems that can cause disturbances in these relationships – which is ultimately why many couples are seeking some effective relationship advice.

These relationship problems are not just arguments, power struggles and fights, but may also include stress reactions of one sort or another, and these can sometimes lead to depression or anxiety in one or both of the partners. Again, problems such as jealousy and sexual difficulties can often cloud what might otherwise be a successful relationship. Many Relationship advice counselors deal with all areas of a relationship, whereas some counselors will deal specifically with certain areas – like communication, sex therapists etc.

During the years when I was running my couple therapy clinic, my team and I devised a method for treating these relationship problems, which we found to be very beneficial. It is chiefly on this experience in treating couples and offering relationship advice that this website is based. There are many good books on how to manage problems like anxiety, shyness and low self-esteem, and many guides to having a better sex life. However, there are not many books available that offer relationship advice to couples, so hopefully this site will start to fill that void.

Do it yourself relationship advice and couple therapy.

You may wonder whether self help articles can be used by the couple themselves without the help of a therapist. Well, I hope that after reading through this site you will be able to give a positive answer to this question. I am encouraged to think so because much of our therapy in the relationship advice clinics I ran was directed towards giving our couples ‘homework’ exercises to be carried out before our next meeting with them.

The couples themselves were responsible for quite a lot of their own successes in therapy, after being given the relevant relationship advice for their specific issues. I think it is very likely that the do-it-yourself approach will be helpful, at least for those couples who are prepared to work together on their relationship problems and are not inexorably set on the road to divorce.

Of course you don’t need to have serious problems in your relationship to make use of the articles on this site: it may simply be used as a way of enhancing what is already a good relationship.