What is couples and marriage therapy?
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how fragile and prone to rupture human bonds can be. Tremendous tensions were experienced by numerous couples and marriages, in which deep crises ending in a painful breakup often occurred. Couples and marriage therapy addresses the difficulties experienced not only by married couples, but is also an offer for couples linked together by an informal bond.
The aim of the therapy is to help overcome serious conflicts and crisis situations. Couples therapy is aimed at regaining harmony in the relationship, ensuring that the needs of both sides are met in mutual relations.
Sometimes, one partner’s belief that one should not talk about one’s marital difficulties to strangers stands in the way of seeking such help. This is a myth that amounts to zealously hiding one’s privacy for fear of being judged and stigmatized. A therapist is a person who is clearly bound by the principle of discretion.
At the same time, voicing one’s feelings and problems to an outsider who will simultaneously listen to it with empathy and understanding brings relief. It helps to get out of loneliness and out of the constantly recurring spirals of frustration, and gives real hope of abandoning the mutual relentless struggle to get out of the path of an unhappy life.
