Awareness

Relationship counselling involves paying attention to your partner.

We start to operate on autopilot once our relationship is established and we can end up stopping paying real attention to each other. We take each other for granted and the freshness-and-novelty factor starts to diminish.

The process of working in the psychobiological mode is tuning in to your partner’s facial expressions and paying particular attention to the gaze.

It’s very connecting and gets us falling in love with each other.

For partners who have stopped hugging each other, the power of the welcome home hug is powerful for reconnecting.

Some partners feel disappointed in how their partner expresses their love.

It’s really important to appreciate how love is expressed in many different ways.

Being reliable and dependable may be one way a partner expresses their commitment. Another partner may like to express their affection with loving words. Both are loving gestures.

These are a few ideas on the awareness-building that relationship counselling develops.