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The Importance of Equality Between Partners

For most people, their intimate partnership is the most significant relationship in their life. It’s where we experience our deepest vulnerability, intimacy, and companionship. Together, couples ride the highs and lows of life — and at its heart, a healthy...

Common Challenges in Autistic Relationships

When one or both partners are on the autism spectrum, relationships can face a unique mix of strengths and challenges. Qualities such as introversion, a need for predictable routines, passion for special interests, or differences in social energy, communication, and...

Common Challenges in ADHD Relationships

When one or both partners experience ADHD, relationships can face a unique set of challenges. Distraction, forgetfulness, impulsivity, hyperactivity, restlessness, and time-management chaos are just a few of the difficulties couples may navigate together. The good...

Marathon Couples Therapy

Marathon Couples Therapy is a specialised form of relationship counselling where the bulk of treatment takes place in an extended block of time rather than in shorter weekly or fortnightly sessions. Developed from the work of Drs John and Julie Gottman, this approach...

How to Rebuild Connection in a Relationship

Feeling More Like Housemates Than Lovers? When couples stop spending intentional time together, emotional distance starts to grow. You may feel lonely, unimportant, or like you're just co-parenting or sharing a house, not really connected as partners. This is common...

How to handle conflict around a partner’s ‘bad habit’

We all have bad habits. Leaving our dishes on the bench rather than putting them in the dishwasher, leaving dirty clothes on the floor, or hiding an empty biscuit packet in the back of the fridge in hope that no-one notices they’ve all been eaten. These things can be...

How to talk about Sex with your partner

Have you ever had an awkward conversation about sex with your partner? Have you ever wanted to bring something up but worried about hurting their feelings or being rejected? Research by John Gottman indicates that couples who can talk about sex well, tend to have a...

Is trauma from a previous relationship affecting your current relationship?

Pretty much everyone wants to have a good relationship. Sometimes the best intentions go awry, and sometimes one partner isn’t quite aware of how they’re impacting the other. But sometimes relationships go badly. Whether a previous relationship involved infidelity,...

How to identify Domestic Violence

Awareness about domestic violence has expanded a lot in recent years, such that many governments now recognise the problematic nature of coercive controlling behaviours. While one person having more control in a relationship, based on gender, was thought to be normal,...

Betrayal Trauma

Betrayal trauma is the natural trauma-like response a person experiences when they find out their partner has been unfaithful, either sexually or emotionally. Betrayal trauma can include symptoms like intrusive images in one’s mind about their partner with another...

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