My Relationship is Bad. Exit Or Stick Around? “How long should I stay?” is a question that I get sometimes in individual therapy clients and a little less frequently in couple therapy too. As a therapist, I can’t answer for the client but I do have ways of helping my clients answer the question for…
Do I Want to be in This Relationship? Part II In my last blog entry I talked about how to use your vision for your future as modified by the reality of a prospective partner to discern whether you would like to choose to continue a relationship. In this entry I will take a more…
Do I want to be in this relationship? Part I When to get into or whether to stay in a relationship or leave can be one of the biggest decisions in life. I have two discernment conversations that I often have with clients when this conversation arises in therapy. The first, and the topic of…