FACT #1: ALL COUPLES HAVE A FEW PROBLEMS
Let's face it, coupledom has its rewards and challenges. Whether you're married or not, long-term intimate relating between two people can get complicated and friction is a natural result. We now know from scientific study of long-term couples and the therapeutic services that alleviate relational distress that:
- Attachment, and associated emotions, is a phenomenon that is scientifically proven to apply to adult love relationships.
- All couples have conflict, and how they manage rupture and repair so that they stay connected is crucial to the stability and satisfaction of the relationship.
- Nearly all couples experience interactive cycles of mutually reinforcing, repetitive, reactive emotions and behaviors that accidentally perpetuate ruptures and hinder repairs.
- Without de-escalating these cycles couples are left at risk of gradual diminishing trust and commitment, and loss of positive sentiment, which can lead to major ruptures such as affairs, cold avoidance, and divorce.
- Attachment, and associated emotions, is a phenomenon that is scientifically proven to apply to adult love relationships.
- All couples have conflict, and how they manage rupture and repair so that they stay connected is crucial to the stability and satisfaction of the relationship.
- Nearly all couples experience interactive cycles of mutually reinforcing, repetitive, reactive emotions and behaviors that accidentally perpetuate ruptures and hinder repairs.
- Without de-escalating these cycles couples are left at risk of gradual diminishing trust and commitment, and loss of positive sentiment, which can lead to major ruptures such as affairs, cold avoidance, and divorce.