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In an ideal world being in a serious relationship would be easy. There would be no angry arguments. There would be no volatile disagreements about children, pets, or former lovers. There would be no intense fighting or regular threats of breaking up and leaving the relationship. In an ideal world couples would be in love forever, have sex frequently and always enjoy each other’s company.
However, we all live in the real world. Couples will disagree, have arguments, say bad things to each other and sometimes threaten to leave one another. In fact, as we all know, couples break up all the time.
We live in a world and at a time when it is easy to leave each other. Our society no longer frowns upon divorce the way it did in the past. Laws governing divorce have become more relaxed in most states. So while divorce is often an ugly personal process, legally it is not very complicated.
In this month’s Newsletter I write about how love relationships develop and how to maintain them. In the article, “Stages of a Relationship”, I explain the challenges most couples face over the long term. In “Conflict Resolution”, I offer some tips that focus on the fundamentals o...
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Stages Of A Relationship
Although it is true that many relationships need to end because the partners are too conflicted, too unhappy, too unmotivated, too tired or too damaged to continue, there are many others that could be salvaged and made to work.
Serious love relationships go through stages of development which parallel individual human stages of development from infancy to maturity. We have all had to work through the challenges of growing up. From the first symbiotic bond with our mothers we struggle...
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