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Couples Do Not Get Stuck in Problems. They Get Stuck in Patterns.

by Ruairi Osborne | Nov 1, 2020 | Couples Therapy

Most couples do not come to therapy because they have “a problem.” They come because they have become trapped inside a pattern. And often, they have been living inside that pattern for years. Sometimes decades. One partner pursues while the other withdraws. One...

Sometimes individual therapy makes relationships worse.

by Ruairi Osborne | Nov 1, 2020 | Couples Therapy

Sometimes individual therapy makes relationships worse. After years of sitting with couples, I think that’s true more often than therapists are comfortable admitting. Not always, obviously. Some people genuinely need therapy to survive a relationship or leave one....

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