METROPOLITAN MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPY, PLLC
We all have unconscious and subconscious patterns driving our relationship behaviors. Until we reprogram these deeper layers, not just change our actions, we stay stuck in painful dynamics. This blog breaks down how to reset those patterns and finally create the healthy relationship you want.
Many couples feel like they give more love than they receive, but what if the issue isn’t effort, but communication? The 5 Love Languages offer a powerful framework for expressing love in a way that your partner truly feels it. Learn how to identify your love languages, avoid their common pitfalls, and create a deeper connection and stronger bond.
Call me a hopeless romantic, but I believe there’s more love in the world than we think. Our reality is shaped by our thoughts, beliefs, and focus. Just like in It’s a Beautiful Life, where a father shields his son from trauma, we, too, can shape our experiences. I help couples rekindle their love and create something new – because love isn’t just found, it’s created.
Frequent conflicts or emotional distance can strain any relationship, but the solution lies in intentional connection. By transforming defense mechanisms, fostering emotional safety, and investing in meaningful habits, you can create a relationship that thrives with intimacy, understanding, and joy. Learn how to embrace a Relationship Enrichment Lifestyle and build a strong partnership you both love.
A brand spanking new year, and the start of a New Quarter Century, #Q2Y2K. Isn’t that something? Big milestone years give me the tingles. I find them super exciting as markers and opportunities for grand gestures, grand plans or intentions, and absolutely for Grand New Beginnings. This is an opportunity to reset ourselves, our relationship, and our life. To set ourselves on a new path, for a new future. We can choose what we want this next segment of time to be like in our Journey… We can design our ideal future. Embracing this perspective is super empowering for having the Experience we desire… Here is to New Year Goals to uplevel our relationship and our life.
Do you find that you often butt heads with your partner when dealing with the business of life? Or that you operate as if you are lost at sea without any direction, and you end up wherever the tide takes you? This has to do with not being on the same page, or not having a clear joint life vision and plan. It also has to do with each of your own personal development levels and relationship dynamics. The more pronounced the impasses, powerstruggles, drama, chaos, and lack of forward movement experienced by the partners, the more wounding and developmental delay that might be plaguing the couple…
There is a reason why our relationship seems to have lost the fizzle, or when we find that we are getting on each other’s nerves, bickering, or fighting more. Partners might attribute different reasons to this, and they might be very valid. But there is usually an underlaying reason that when tapped into and addressed, creates massive shifts for the partners, the relationship, AND their lives…
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We’d do anything for our partner and our family, we love them to death… Have you heard yourself say these words in your head or to others? But is that sentiment and approach to our relationship, family and life actually serving us and them? When we love too much, we get in the way of our love…Let me explain. When we love too much, we do for others what they can and ought to do for themselves. We let them off the hook. We enable them to underfunction, not be accountable or responsible, not to step up, and to not honor us or show up for us. Everything becomes about what they get, which doesn’t really support them at the end of the day, and at our expense to boot…
