Hope for Couples in Conflict

The journey of every marriage inevitably takes all couples onto the ‘rocky roads’ of conflict. Some couples choose to tread the rough and rocky pathway together, and through skillful listening and patient communication, they are able to stay together no matter how bumpy and difficult the road gets. Others, however, are left behind by their partners and many, after they have tripped and fallen with painful emotional wounds, find themselves lost in a world where they are alone and unable to trust.

The Conflicts

What many couples don’t realize is that most problems (whether grounded in the past or related to current circumstances) can actually be solved. When couples learn to shift their communication from a “debate” to a dialogue of patient, willing and respectful listening, and where emotions can be safely expressed and validated, they re-energize the emotional connections that once drew them together. Without this respectful dialogue, couples stay locked into the never-ending debates that over time perpetuate the deepening emotional resentments that have come between them. Some couples will divorce, others will resign themselves to the quiet misery of a joyless marriage and still others will act out through aggressive and emotionally abusive behaviors such as overeating, excessive use of alcohol and drugs and damaging infidelities that only further damage the friendship and the trust that they once had.

The Hope

Sherwood Couples Counseling specializes in helping couples in high-conflict relationships to begin the dialogue that will ultimately lead you and your partner back to a point of resolution, and re-commitment and where new skills in listening and communicating will help you see a bright future of hope rather than the unhappy prospect of living with the resignation and emotional avoidance of an unhappy and joyless marriage.

Turn back to the vows you made on your wedding day. While there is life, there is still hope that you will yet find the warmth, the friendship, the closeness and the trust of a fulfilled and happy marriage.

Sherwood Couples Counseling is both skilled and committed toward the goal of guiding couples through the healing process so that they can rediscover the emotional connections that once brought them together. Our intensive and marathon approaches will help you and your partner break through relationship roadblocks by rediscovering your friendship and developing healthier and more effective styles of communication.

Through these therapies, you will also discover your own core values, the values you and your partner have formed together and the values that you and your partner will build on to achieve a truly happy and fulfilled relationship.

You may have been stuck in a very difficult place for a very long time, and no matter your age or the state of your relationship, it’s not too late to get back on track, to reconnect to the lost, forgotten, and unspoken dreams that you are longing to experience and which first drew you together.