Secrets of a Couples Counselor: 3 Steps to Happier Relationships | Susan L. Adler | TEDxOakParkWomen
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Channel: TEDx Talks
Views: 753,582
Rating: 4.8896117 out of 5
Keywords: TEDxTalks, English, Life, Family, Happiness, Love, Relationships
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Length: 12min 38sec (758 seconds)
Published: Mon Jan 07 2019
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I like this. Added to the Wiki.
Most people dont know this, but if there is abuse happening in the relationship couples/marriage counseling is something to stay away from. It can actually make things worse for the one being abused, even risk their life if its physical abuse. What she is talking about in this video can be applied to most couples having problems, couples that both contribute negatively to the relationship. With abuse, one person is causing the problems and manipulating the victim into thinking its their fault. It is very easy for couples counselors to be manipulated as well. Couples counseling in itself sends the message 1. BOTH people need to change and work harder to improve. 2. If it is BOTH people, its not abuse, it justifies the abuser even more in his thinking. 3. Couples counseling is a place to open up, be vulnerable, share things very personal. In an abusive relationship it is NOT SAFE to do this. Women have had what they thought were good sessions in the counseling office, husband seemed to actually care and the counselor would say the same. All smiles, head out the door....on the way home or at home- he knocks the shit out of her and explodes in rage. Emotional abuse can be hell on earth esp at this time too. Therapy/counseling for abuse is the only thing, not anger management, not couples counsenling, not individual counseling. Please read WHY DOES HE DO THAT by LUNDY BANCROFT. This book will teach you so much.
This is exactly what I needed to hear! Thank you for sharing!
This advice is actually pretty pedestrian in nature. The whole āI would love it if lā is ridiculous. As of it were so easy. Lmao. Anything but anger is good advice but much much easier said than done.
I needed this really badly.
Therapy today was this exact lesson about resentment building. I marvel at how perfect the timing was for this to show up on my feed.
this comes up in my feed the day after having a 2-day 'fight' with my hubby; thinking back, i was trying these steps already and didn't know it.
And keeping it playful, one of my favorite things to do when my husband comes home from work is to hide behind doors and corners and jump out and scare him. He acts is if it makes him mad but I know secretly he loves it. It lets him know I am anticipating his arrival.
She calls it "raising the bar", I learned it as "Be at your best when your partner is at their worst". I've found it really helpful.