What can you do now to make your relationship work?

Peaceful Home, Peaceful Marriage.... Sound Relationship House

Great Question, right.

There are things that you can do right now that will help your marriage. There are choices that you can choose that will help your marriage heal, ignite, and restore today, if you start doing them. Welcome to the Sound Relationship House. What is this, you ask? The Sound Relationship House is a theory from Dr. John &Julie Gottman that is a road map of how to help your marriage.

Pioneers in relationship science, Drs. John and Julie Gottman have revolutionized our understanding of marriage, relationships, and couples therapy. They draw upon four decades of breakthrough research with more than 3,000 couples. The Sound Relationship House Theory is the foundation of the Gottman Method, which uses a practical approach to help couples break through barriers to achieve greater understanding, connection, and intimacy in their relationships. ( Gottman Relationship Checkup, checkup-gottman.com)

The things you can do to help your marriage are :

Maintain awareness of your partner’s world

Make deposits into your partner’s emotional love bank

Accept bid of emotional connection

Create positive perspective of your relationship

Accept Influence from your partner

Healthily Discuss your problems with partner

Find ways to support your partner’s goals and dreams

Build a sense of purpose together

To Find out more about these techniques or to strengthen your marriage call me, Natalie Teeters, MS, psychotherapist at True Life Counseling. I will lead you through the steps needed to grow and strengthen your marriage. Isn’t your marriage worth it?

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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Certain negative communication styles are so lethal to a relationship that Dr. John Gottman calls them the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. They predict relationship failure with over 90% accuracy if the behavior isn't changed. So, what can you do? Practice these four research-based antidotes to save your relationship from certain destruction.

Want to learn more about these negative communication styles? Click here for a video of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o30Ps-_8is

Want to make sure you are avoiding the 4 Horsmen of the Apocalypse? Try Marriage Counseling with me, Natalie Teeters. I use Gottman Marriage Counseling methods with Solution Focued, Pre-Pare Enrich Assessments and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.