Everyone has experienced personal conflict at some point in their life. What makes this conflict productive or destructive to a relationship is how you handle it. One of the most detrimental ways of handling conflict is triangulation. Triangulation is when a person brings a third person into the conflict because it makes them feel safer.…
What is Love? “What is love?” Is one of the most asked questions in American culture today. Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love attempts to answer that question. The Triangular Theory of Love attempts to describe love by breaking it down into it’s components. Proposed by Robert Sternberg in the 1980’s, the Triangular Theory of Love…
Motivation is one of the things that is required for change. Any change. An object at rest stays at rest. An object in motion stays in motion. In Marriage and Family Therapy we learn that everything is part of a system and this system hates change (Gehart, 2018). It will do whatever it can to…
Keeping secrets in couple counseling is a controversial topic. One of the things that clients wonder when they begin therapy for their marriage or relationship is if the therapist will keep the secrets of one partner from the other partner. If you were a therapist would you keep a partner’s secret? If you chose not…