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1851: Why Couples Shouldn't Do Couples Therapy (Says the Couples Therapist) by Dr. Kelly Flanagan on Marriage Counseling

Optimal Relationships Daily - Dating, Marriage and Parenting

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How to Fight Within Marriage Ourself

"I began to share with her the multitude of ways I had felt not enough in the past week," she writes. "With no shame to defend, I felt free to apologize for all the ways I bungle my priorities and lose my focus on the most interesting thing in my life." Until we can be gentle with ourselves, we can't be gentle to anyone else, he says. We cultivate a quiet still attentiveness that pulls the covers of anger off the bed of our shame.

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