You and your relationship

Rekindling Love

There can often be times in your marriage or significant relationship where you wonder where the love has gone. Somehow, in the hum-drum of our regular lives and routines, the passion we once felt for our partner disappears and we drift apart, leaving us feeling alone and perhaps worried or confused. We question whether we can ever get the love back and feel truly connected again.

Maintaining Healthy Relationships

As the saying goes, prevention is better than cure and this is certainly the case when it comes to maintaining good relationships. Understanding what we are doing currently that is keeping the relationship healthy and what traps to avoid falling into is a great inoculation against relationship deterioration. This is particularly so when it comes to a love relationship.

LGBTIQ+ Relationships

LGBTIQ+ individuals and couples often have similar issues to everyone, but significant exceptions are the prejudice, marginalisation, bullying, and lack of acceptance, including emotional and physical abuse, experienced by many in the LGBTIQ+ community.

Re-partnering

People re-partnering are sometimes more aware of the difficulties in establishing a successful relationship and can be more committed to making the partnership work.

Relationship Fraud

Relationship fraud can happen to anyone and if it does it can have devastating consequences. Over the years internet dating sites and chat rooms have become a popular and easy way for singles to meet people amidst their busy schedules.

Managing Conflict

Conflict is an inevitable factor in every relationship. The more time we spend with a person the more likely we are to have disagreements. While conflict has a certain negative 'stigma' attached to it, it is not actually a bad thing. In fact, conflict which is dealt with in a healthy manner can help our relationships grow to higher levels.

Dealing with Separation

Experiencing a mixture of emotions including profound disappointment, grief, anxiety or guilt is common. But it’s important to know that you can move on and you will move on. Of course, it’s natural when the separation is new, to feel vulnerable about the future and to have many questions.

Children and Separation

It is very important to be there for your children during this tumultuous time. Most children will feel vulnerable and have many fears – some realistic, some unfounded. Try and keep as many normal routines as possible and develop new ones together.

Men and Separation

Often the last thing men want is to seek support of any kind. But never be afraid to ask – people want to help. Support can be found in friends, family, work colleagues, other separated men, a local doctor or counselling services.

Women and Separation

For some women practical matters and economical planning were taken care of by their former partners. But don’t despair, learning to do these things yourself can help you feel more independent and confident about the future. Many women report discovering positive aspects of themselves that they never knew existed.

Violence and Abuse

Violence in an intimate or family relationship is a sign that something is wrong. It should be taken seriously and assistance needs to be sought.

Communication

Effective communication is a critical key to having loving and stable relationships and is also a valuable tool for stressed or fractured relationships. It is necessary to our happiness as human beings.

Building Better Relationships

Intimate relationships can be both rewarding and challenging. A crisis situation will often push an intimate relationship to its limits.

Recharge Your Relationship

We’ve all had to deal with some major changes to our lives and the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it may have thrown some extra challenges at your relationship.

Starting Together, Staying Together

The following tips will help to establish the foundations for a healthy relationship, and enable us to manage difficulties.

You and your relationship

Rekindling Love

Maintaining Healthy Relationships

LGBTIQ+ Relationships

Re-partnering

Relationship Fraud

Managing Conflict

Dealing with Separation

Children and Separation

Men and Separation

Women and Separation

Violence and Abuse

Communication

Building Better Relationships

Recharge Your Relationship

Starting Together, Staying Together

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You and your relationship

Rekindling Love

Maintaining Healthy Relationships

LGBTIQ+ Relationships

Re-partnering

Relationship Fraud

Managing Conflict

Dealing with Separation

Children and Separation

Men and Separation

Women and Separation

Violence and Abuse

Communication

Building Better Relationships

Recharge Your Relationship

Starting Together, Staying Together

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