Is Marriage Counseling Covered by Insurance?
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When you are going through a rough patch in your marriage, you turn to marriage counseling to fix the issues. Unfortunately, many couples are unable to use this service because they can be quite expensive, depending on where you live. Many couples hope that by using their insurance, they can use it to cover the cost of counseling.
Managing Finances in Your Relationship
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Couples have different financial stressors. If you are like many couples, you may struggle with your spouse spending while you want to save every dime you own, or the other way around. Some couples find that both partners have different sensitivities from their history, what we call schemas, that cause their finance issues, such as one spouse being a pessimist, seeing the work with a negative filter that assumes the worst, while the other partner falls into approval-seeking, seeking status that they think will somehow secure their worth to other people they view as important.
How Can Marriage Therapy in NYC Help Your Relationship?
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When couples face these make-or-break moments, marriage therapy is often recommended by friends and family. It may even be a path you have considered pursuing on your own. However, engaging in marriage and family therapy in NYC brings along a list of questions and considerations. You may wonder, what is the success rate of marriage counseling? Or even, does marriage therapy really work?
Dreaming of a Post-Pandemic Relationship?
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At the beginning of quarantine, there was a bit of panic about how couples would be able to maintain stability within their relationship under these new conditions. There was a time when it was very easy to find blogs writing about how the pandemic has resulted in an increase in divorces and a decrease in marriages. But if you were to take a closer look, many would see that that isn’t the complete picture. While it is true that there has been a decrease in marriages in the past year, that has more to do with so many venues and businesses being closed down for most of the year.
In-Laws Interfering in Your Marriage?
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Stopping your in-laws from interfering with your marriage will take work – sometimes a lot of it if you’re dealing with particularly anxious in-laws. While you and your spouse will have to work as a team to overcome in-law drama, it’s certainly possible to “in-law proof” your marriage, and remain happy together.
How to Treat Your Valentine in New York: Pandemic Version
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Just because your dinner reservations may be canceled doesn’t mean that connecting with your love is canceled too! Taking some time to recharge your romantic life may help reestablish some normalcy and comfort for both of you. If you’d like to do something special for your spouse or partner but don’t know where to get started because of the pandemic, check out these ideas to treat your other half to a beautiful Valentine’s Day – no Hallmark cards required.
Staying Together for the Children?
Unfortunately, there’s no manual for divorce; no clear-cut, black-and-white rule book that gives you step-by-step guidelines for navigating this season of your life. But there are a few indicators that will help guide you to an answer. If you and your partner are considering a divorce but hesitating for the sake of the kids, consider these questions from our blog.
Should You Get Premarital Counseling?
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So, should you get premarital counseling? In short: yes! Every couple can benefit from premarital counseling before they walk down the aisle. It’s much like preventative medicine versus acute care – wouldn’t you much rather take measures now to ensure your relationship’s health than have to reach out for help when things are bad? But just in case you need more convincing, here are some signs that you and your future spouse should definitely participate in premarital counseling.
How to Communicate Better in Your Marriage
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If you and your partner/spouse feel that tension crops up in your lives more often than you’d like or feel that miscommunication is just a part of daily lives, you need to re-examine how you approach these issues as a couple. Rather than pushing further down the path that you’re on, just waiting for another inevitable argument, it’s time to change the way you communicate.
Helping Your Marriage Survive the Pandemic in New York
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The pandemic has put a massive strain on the world as a whole. The COVID-19 virus is pushing our healthcare system to its breaking point, our education system is scrambling to adapt to the challenges of virtual learning models, and the tension of it all is affecting our marriages and love relationships.