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		<title>Couples Counseling and Cohabitating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Couples counseling is often used as a phrase to replace the term marriage counseling because not every couple is married.  The truth is not every committed couple can legally be married, and not every committed couple chooses to ever marry.
Cohabitation is essentially a couple who lives together, with the intent of living together permanently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/counseling/couples-counseling-and-cohabitating/</link>
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		<title>Counseling Takes: The Story of Sandy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sandy had been married for 26 years.  She had been young when they met, a great beauty, with most women fading into the background whenever she was present.  Smart, witty and talented, she was a commanding presence.  She met her husband when she was young, he older with grown children from a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/counseling/counseling-takes-the-story-of-sandy/</link>
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		<title>Counseling Help for Infidelity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Infidelity is one of the most difficult issues for a couple to deal with head on and then overcome in a healthy way.  Affairs are damaging to a couple on just about every level.  Emotional dependence, long term trust issues and insecurity and resentment can become overwhelming even long after a couple decide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/counseling/counseling-help-for-infidelity/</link>
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		<title>Counseling Breaks Down Reactive Patterns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each of us has certain patterns that have developed in our relationships, commonly played out scenarios that seem to repeat themselves with a life of their own.  Marriage counseling is often called upon to help couples break unhealthy patterns.
David always does that.  When he doesn’t want to do something, he completely ignores it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/counseling/counseling-breaks-down-reactive-patterns/</link>
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		<title>Emotional Support In Relationships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Couples counseling deals with many different kinds of relationships and the intricate patterns of communication, love and inter-dependence that couples share. One of the most fascinating aspects of emotional interdependence is the ways in which emotional support types can vary.
Emotional Support
When beginning couples counseling, many couples are confused about the difference between emotional support and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/counseling/emotional-support-in-relationships/</link>
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		<title>Professional Marriage and Family Therapy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many ongoing research that look into the effectiveness of marriage counseling and family therapy.  The benefits of therapy, while difficult to measure in a traditional sense, clearly show the benefits of counseling and therapy in helping families learn to better relate and communicate.
Marriage and family therapy cover a large range of mental [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/marriage-counselors/professional-marriage-and-family-therapy/</link>
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		<title>eTherapy Brings Counseling to You!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Online therapy, also sometimes eTherapy or even Email therapy, is yet another forum through which trained and certified counselors and therapists can reach out to patients and help them in an increasingly busy, but well connected world.
See Your eTherapist with Webcams
With online therapy or eTherapy, you will be able to see your therapist, literally, if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/marriage-counseling/etherapy-brings-counseling-to-you/</link>
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		<title>Family Counselor Steps In</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sal and Barb had been married for 22 years.  They were both calm individuals and kept their own personal dramas to a minimum.  They had a lot of interests in common, including hiking, which contributed to a better than average communication line between the two of them.  In short, they were well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/family-counseling/family-counselor-steps-in/</link>
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		<title>One Session Marriage Counseling Benefits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Financial concerns have put many couples over the edge, but help can be found in the form of one-session marriage counseling.  When you attend a one-meeting marriage counseling session, you are able to achieve real benefits and techniques to improve your relationship without putting you into medical debt.
A one-meeting marriage counseling session will help [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/marriage-counselors/one-session-marriage-counseling-benefits/</link>
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		<title>Older Marriage, Older Solutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For older individuals seeking out marriage therapy, there are often emotional and mental barriers that need to be addressed before real therapy for their couples issue can begin. Older patients who enter into marriage therapy often do so after many years of unhappy relationships.  They are often stuck in decades-old habits of faulty communication [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/marriage-counseling/older-marriage-older-solutions/</link>
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		<title>Busy Marriages are Lasting Marriages!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boredom is one of the silent killers in even those marriages that start off strong and motivated.  Over the years, boredom is a small but growing voice suggesting that you turn to something or someone else in order to create that exciting rush of chemicals and adrenaline.  Boredom, however, is also the work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/marriage-counseling/busy-marriages-are-lasting-marriages/</link>
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		<title>Pre-Marital Counseling Makes a Difference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jill and Jared has a problem in their relationship and the were not willing to go through to the next step, marriage, unless they could get to the core of he issue.  After much discussion, they came to the conclusion that they did love each other, they wanted to be with one another, they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/marriage-counselors/pre-marital-counseling-makes-a-difference/</link>
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		<title>Couples Counseling for Your Happiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Traditional couples counseling is often the best resource for troubled relationships, but you may be surprised to find out just how many couples are reluctant to take that step.  Be it from a hesitancy to air out their issues in front of someone unfamiliar or from a refusal to admit that the relationship is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/counseling/couples-counseling-for-your-happiness/</link>
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		<title>Counseling at the Right Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the many roles of a marriage counselor is that of a guide and supporter.  When Debby and Charlie first came to marriage counseling they admitted that, though new to this counselor, they had in fact been to counseling a few years prior for mostly the same issues.  They had chosen to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/counseling/counseling-at-the-right-time/</link>
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		<title>Woods&#8217; Marriage Counseling Takes Center Stage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When your partner is unfaithful it may seem that there is little love or trust left in your marriage.  Marriage Therapy can help you and your partner reestablish those bonds of trust and love again even when it seems like hope is lost.
Infidelity Hurts
Infidelity is a problem that has affected marriages and relationships throughout [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/marriage-counselors/woods-marriage-counseling-takes-center-stage/</link>
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		<title>Couples Counseling and Communication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Couples counseling helps you and your partner learn and develop skills that you may have forgotten you even had, such as the ability to truly listen to your partner.  One of the most common complaints when a couple comes into counseling is that their partner never listens to them anymore.  Interestingly, almost always, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/counseling/couples-counseling-and-communication/</link>
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		<title>Counselors, Therapists and Methods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Counselors and Therapists are individual people and, as such, have their own individual preferences for certain therapy types.  It should be noted that there is no one certain therapy type that is better than all the others nor is there one at the bottom of the pack.  Different therapies work best for certain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/counseling/counselors-therapists-and-methods/</link>
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		<title>Marriage Advice from the Masses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marriage advice can come from many different sources.  From friends, family and work associates, sometimes it seems like you can’t turn your head without being offered marriage advice.  Of course, advice from these sources is generally dependent upon the advisor’s one source of information, you!
Most people who are going to give you advice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/marriage-counseling/marriage-advice-from-the-masses/</link>
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		<title>Working Your Marriage Skills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apologizing to your partner can help you mend some of the hurts in your relationship and start again the right way.  An apology in and of itself isn’t going to be enough, however, if both you and your partner are at fault.  Just one person saying sorry doesn’t help if both people had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/marriage-counseling/working-your-marriage-skills/</link>
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		<title>Apologize and Begin Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the lessons that marriage counseling teaches and guides clients through is finding the strength to say “I’m sorry” and mean it.  It really isn’t easy to say you’re sorry, especially when you truly mean it.  The entire point of apologizing to someone is to admit that you were wrong, that you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/relationship-counseling/apologize-and-begin-again/</link>
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		<title>Healthy Marriage Healthy Body Image</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Married couples often come to marriage counseling when their relationship is already tired and out of shape, left on it’s own to develop unhealthy communication and response habits.  You see, a marriage is almost a thing of its own accord, separate from each individual because it is made up of a combination of both. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/marriage-counselors/healthy-marriage-healthy-body-image/</link>
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		<title>Therapy for the Overwhelmed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More and more individuals are seeking individual therapy to help deal with the stress of taking care of aging loved ones, especially parents.  In fact, it is increasingly common to see middle generation families taking care of themselves, their parents and their own children all at the same time while simultaneously working on their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/therapy/therapy-for-the-overwhelmed/</link>
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		<title>A Relationship in Stress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are different signs that become more obvious when a couple is in dire need of marriage counseling. The arguments may increase dramatically or, in some severe cases, stop altogether in an icy silence.  Resentment and anger may have led to eventual emotional distance, which in turn resulted in the couple leading completely separate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/marriage-counselors/a-relationship-in-stress/</link>
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		<title>Chemical Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The chemical processes involved in falling in love and staying in love are really quite fascinating.  There are so many different chemicals, hormones and changes in our body and brain chemistry that falling for that special someone is as much science as it is mystery.
The honeymoon stage is characterized by a feeling of well-being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/relationship-counseling/chemical-love/</link>
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		<title>Setting Goals for Relationship Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Setting goals for yourself and your relationships is an important part of the healing process.  Impossible goals with no real framework attached to them are one of the hallmarks of potential failure in a relationship.  Knowing what you want and where you want to be in your relationship is an end result.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/relationship-counseling/setting-goals-for-relationship-success/</link>
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		<title>Common Marriage Problem Causes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marriage problems can come in many different directions, catching us off guard and throwing off the carefully built balance of our relationship. Marriage problems aren’t something to be ashamed of because they are just another part of the natural progression of every long term relationship.  The ways in which we deal with these problems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/marriage-counselors/common-marriage-problem-causes/</link>
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		<title>Therapy and Counseling for Children with ADD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is often the ones who have the least control and who cannot ask for help that are themselves the most in need of it.  When children have problems and medical conditions that severely affect their lives it could be a great help to them if a family counselor was involved who could support [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/therapy/therapy-and-counseling-for-children-with-add/</link>
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		<title>Phone Counseling to Expedite Healing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have found yourself struggling, alone and fearful  in a sense of isolation than you may be wondering what kind of help an individual therapist can give you.  Plain and simple, you deserve more happiness from this world than you are currently experiencing. The pathways to joy and friendship and a healthier [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/counseling/phone-counseling-to-expedite-healing/</link>
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		<title>Anxiety Disorder Treatment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anxiety Disorder includes so many symptoms and signs that it eventually even becomes a symptom of itself.  Anxiety Disorder includes a variety of physical symptoms that can be crippling at worst and barely tolerable at best.
Some of the signs of Anxiety Disorder are:

Feelings of apprehension or dread
Trouble concentrating
Feeling tense and jumpy
Anticipating the worst
Irritability
Restlessness
Watching for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/therapy/anxiety-disorder-treatment/</link>
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		<title>What Not To Do In Marriage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The marriage tips and hints that are offered to couples can get filed away in the mental “suggestion box” that we all tend to keep in the backs of our minds.  Marriage hints and tips seem to be offered from every direction at once, especially when you’re having a difficult time in your relationship.
Instead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themarriagecounselingblog.com/marriage-counseling/what-not-to-do-in-marriage/</link>
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