Category / Love & Relationships
All being well, love and relationships should be a source of joy, comfort and support in your life. Unfortunately, however, that’s not always the case. Relationships can be tough, and even if you’re deeply in love, maintaining healthy relationships is not always easy.
Many relationships go through rocky patches. Perhaps you are under a financial strain, one of you becomes ill, or work and family conflicts are making you hard to live with. Perhaps your kids are a worry or your elderly parents.
Whether you are married, dating, monogamous or polyamorous, a long-term couple or newly partnered, living in harmony with your chosen family brings its own challenges.
There is support available. In this section, you will find articles relevant to love and relationships and links to avenues of support if you or your family are struggling.
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When Love Hurts: How Couples Can Get Stuck in a ‘Dance of Distress’
What do you do and who do you turn to when love hurts? Most of us seek a close, committed, loving relationship; someone who is there for us when we need them, someone who can respond to us when we require close connection and with whom we can confide and share our feelings and concerns.…
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How Do You Love Someone? Couples Counsellor & Psychotherapist Candy Newman Asks The Big Question
So how do you love someone? It seems like a very simple question, but when someone asks ‘how do you know you love someone?’, it evokes an answer that will be totally unique to your own self and the answer can be very complex. Everyone is different when it comes to addressing their role in…
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Couples In The Coronavirus Lockdown – How To Thrive As Well As Survive
How are couples in the Coronavirus lockdown adjusting to the new circumstances that have hit us all over the past year year and what are the possible effects on their relationship? There is, literally, no getting away from the pandemic, during the Covid lockdown you’ll be spending a great deal more of your time with…
