you’re in a relationship and it isn’t going as well as you’d like, and you no longer feel the relationship’s joy, or you are constantly noticing a lot of unhappiness with your partner. when you are in a relationship for a long time, there will be times when you or your partner will not be happy in it, but that does not mean you do not have a happy relationship. regain is a great way to find a therapist that …

a happy marriage can mean you have a partner to share your life with and experience together all the joys and hardships that come with it. being unhappy in your marriage is different from being dissatisfied with your life. and as long as the marriage isn’t abusive and partners are reasonably respectful of one another, it can actually work for some couples. here are resources you can reach out to right now: if your marriage is unhappy but you’re not …

there are many temptations to organize our life around the experience of earlier trauma. the average cost of a divorce is $12,900, and if you are dealing with child support or custody issues, that cost doubles. some statistics suggest that those who have more money to lose in the event of a divorce are more likely to stay married, regardless of their reported level of marital contentment. this is an important distinction, in that “staying together for benefit of the …

people whose parents divorced are more likely to experience relationship breakdowns than those whose parents remained together4 and seeing high levels of conflict during childhood and adolescence or experiencing abuse in the early years has been linked to relationship problems later in life.5,6 life transitions, such as moving from living together to being married, having a baby, children leaving home, and moving into retirement can put strain on a relationship, and the couple can start feeling less ‘connected’ to one …

not to mention there may even be days when the mere sight of your spouse makes you want to lock yourself in your bedroom indefinitely—which is part of the reason why it can be hard to tell if you’re actually in an unhappy relationship or marriage or if you’re just going through a rough patch. and while that may be true, so is the opposite: “healthy relationships have conflict,” says stephanie wijkstrom, a psychotherapist and founder of the counseling and …