Your relationship can provide the energy, support, and enthusiasm needed to feel happy and optimistic.

Here are signs that counseling may be right for your relationship:

• You feel like you are living separate lives.
• The same arguments appear repeatedly.
• Sex is almost non-existent, or it is unpleasant for one or both partners.
• Someone is cheating or having an affair.
• The family finances are hidden from one another (”financial infidelity”).
• Your partner is now “the enemy.”
• Intimacy is withheld as a form of punishment.
• Problems are ignored, with one or both partners unwilling to resolve them.
• The relationship feels like it is more difficult than it should be to maintain.
• There is an ongoing feeling of disinterest and dislike between the partners.