Marital Counseling / Relationship Counseling

Common reasons that lead to complications in marriage/relationships are:

Abuse:

Sometimes there is physical abuse or emotional abuse which leads to the development of fear or feeling of anger. And if there is a prolonged suppression or outburst against the partner it leads to drift amongst each other. This is also a result of non-acceptable force given by either of the partners to the other which might also lead to a breakdown.
In-laws.

Many times the bitterness is caused due to people in the family and not from the partner, leading to fights with the partner for clashes, lack of understanding, and difference of opinions which may impact the relationship.

Financial Struggles:

Going through a rough patch of life happens due to financial problems. During these times lack of understanding and non- communication or internal stress leads to develop gaps as one cannot cope up due to non- fulfillment of desires leading to distance amongst the two.

Lack of Respect:

Lack of respect and use of abusive words for the better half or repetitive insults in front of family, friends, or others creates disrespect and painful knots and leading to bursts later. Thus causing indifferences amongst each other.

Children:

At times when the work of the child is not distributed between both the parents and solely handled by a single parent leads to frustrations. If prolonged and not resolved at proper time might lead to the outburst. Even at times, there is a conflict arises in making the decision for the future building of the child. These difference of opinions leads to fights thus causing problems in marriage.

Sexual Dissatisfaction:

When the physical needs of the partners are not fulfilled by each other creates suppression of desires at times developing anger or fights amongst the two. It can be built low self-esteem and sense of self, body image issues and at times the person may even not feel worthy. This can lead to a break in a marital knot.

Cheating in Marriage:

Cheating is hard to define as it has different meanings for different couples. So knowing the boundaries from each other is very important. For some it's just mere building friendship or emotional support with the opposite sex, for some, it may be watching porn, sex chat, or sexual relationship with someone or for some, it may be something else. Cheating can leave the person with a feeling of devastation, alone, betrayed, and confused. These things create harmful damages but can be repaired but it would take a tremendous effort from both to build it.

Social Media:

This one is one of the major reasons for problems in marriages due to spending excessive time on social media and less with your partner. There are always constant comparisons of other materials with yours and putting pressure and constantly feeling unsatisfied with your partner and whatever one possesses and thus putting pressure on the other. Secrecy due to locking up of phones may constantly keep your partners disturbed, etc..So these leads to feelings of dissatisfaction, stress, anger, lack of fulfillment, etc.. drifting partners apart.

How Marital Counseling Helps?

• It understands the relationship and the root cause of emotional & physical gap
• Helps to put down unwanted expectations
• Teaches healthy communication
• Dissolves the conflict
• Teaches methods to strengthen the bond
• Helps you become independent to solve the future coming problems in the peaceful and best manner for the betterment of both

Therapeutic approach

• Initially, the counselor will build rapport with you by building trust and non- judgmental approach so that the problems are shared comfortably
• The counselor will understand the current issues and marriage issues from depth to find the root cause and also look upon the areas of strength to build back the relationship through therapy and step by step would give you tasks and help you find a mid settlement to your current issues and help you heal and build stronger understanding for each other.
• You may find noticeable changes in your relationship and approach towards each other after a few sessions
• It takes up to 10 to 15 sessions to build a healthy relationship again. The number of sessions may vary depending upon the severity and disruptions caused.