Couples Counseling

4 Steps to Keep Your Sex Life Alive After Marriage by Ashley Seeger, LCSW I recently had a couple come in to see me for premarital counseling - worried and terrified. Many married friends had told them that their sex life was about to die. And that after the honeymoon the arguments about when, how…

I recently had a wonderful opportunity to go live on the BBC World News with Katty Kay to talk about my passion - strong marriages. We talked about a recent study showing that ongoing conflict in your close relationships increases your mortality rate by two to three times. While these findings are shocking, they also…

Expectation is a powerful force and it shapes our moments and our lives in profound ways. It also shapes our relationships. If you can harness the power of expectation, you can dramatically change your relationships and your life.

One of the hardest parts of maintaining a struggling relationship is knowing when to break up and knowing when to stick together. All relationships take work. All of them have their little annoyances and disconnects. Over time, there are going to be fights and there are going to be times when you're not sure the…

Most of us can list at least 10 things that we dislike or even hate about our spouse. Maybe they are late, overspend,  forget to pick up the dry cleaning, too ambitious and working late, or not ambitious enough, etc.  These usually become the focus of couples’ worst fights. Mainly because resolution feels impossible. Couples…

4 Steps to Keep Your Sex Life Alive After Marriage by Ashley Seeger I recently had a couple come in to see me for premarital counseling - worried and terrified. Many married friends had told them that their sex life was about to die. And that after the honeymoon the arguments about when, how often,…