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Five (5) Tips For Couples Social Distancing At Home During A Pandemic (Coronavirus, COVID-19 11)


Being stuck at home can start to get old very quickly even in the most loving homes. The inability to move about as you wish as we shelter in place during this COVID-19 pandemic is a source of both anxiety and frustration. As many people are on edge, it’s important to stake special care not to take it out on loved ones who are frequently the first targets when people need to things out. Taking simple steps such as practicing patience and checking on your partner can go a long way to helping make social distancing at home easier on your partner. Making home an easier and more welcoming place to be will reduce the likelihood of people feeling the need to leave the house to have peace as our communities work to stop the spread of the Coronavirus and end this pandemic. Weather you are in ordered quarantine, shelter in place order or just doing your part to save the world, if being at home is what we need to do to help bring this COVID-19 pandemic to an end, we need to ensure we help make home a place our loved ones want to be.

Five (5) Things To Remember About Communication

Knowing when and how you communicate and what you are communicating can make or break your relationship. Keeping in mind some basic rules about communication can help couples be better communicators. Remember that much of communication is non-verbal and that what you do or don’t do can communicate a lot more than you intended to share.

Five (5) Tips For Helping Your Partner Communicate With You

Communication is unique between any two people. This is why it is important that couples learn to communicate in a way that meets their partner’s communication needs. This is even more important when at least one of them is not a very strong communicator.

Five (5) Sources Of Conflict In Long Marriages


The number of couple divorcing after long marriage have doubled over the last 20 years. The term Gray divorce was coined to describe the trend. After 20 years or 30 years there are some situations that couples face in mid life that that can and often does put strains of their relationship. While divorce after 20 years is difficult and the sources of conflict may be part of the natural course of life, through more effective communications couples can take steps to help prevent divorce after long marriages.

Five (5) Ways Relationship Counseling Helps Singles

There has been a growing trend of singles seeking relationship counseling to help them be ready for the relationship they seek. Seeing the benefits they get from it… More people should have been doing this a long time ago.

Five (5) Tips For dating after infidelity

Infidelity can shake you. It can even change some things in you. No matter what, It’s important to heal and get back out there. These are a few tips to help.

Five (5) Ways To ‘Help’ Safeguard Your Relationship Against Infidelity

Five (5) Ways to improve communication

Five (5) Things to NOT Do While Your Partner Deals With Your Infidelity

Five (5) Tips For Helping Your Partner Deal With Your Infidelity

Five (5) Tips For Surviving A Partners Infidelity

Five (5) Things To NOT Do After A Partner’s Infidelity

Five (5) Infidelity Don’ts

Five (5) Ways Counseling Helps Heal After Infidelity

Staying Together- Five (5) Steps To Begin Healing After Infidelity

He/She Cheated Now What? Five (5) Steps To Take After Infidelity

Find out what the catalyst to infidelity was- Was there an unmet need or is the person not ready for a monogamous relationship?

Take time to process and experience your feelings and then express them- Don’t throw yourself into action and ignore what you are feeling.

Determine what it will take to make you feel safe and trusting in that relationship again.

Decide what you as a couple are prepared to do to repair your relationship.

Make a joint decision on the future of your relationship.