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A familiar moment in human-services work: the second hour of an afternoon session, one partner tightening at the shoulders, the other looking somewhere just past her ear. The clinician can feel what has shifted in the room — the empathy that brought her into this work is fully present. The question, as it tends to be in moments like these,

By 2024, online therapy had moved from emergency option to default category for many couples. The question that persisted under all the convenience — does the format actually work as well as the in-person version — was being studied even as couples were already using it. Some of the recent answers, including a 2024 Norwegian study of the Gottman Seven

Given enough years, the unlikely tends to happen. A serious illness arrives. A parent slips into decline. A career bends in a direction nobody predicted. Most relationships meet at least one of these, and many meet several. The capacity to keep moving through them, and to stay turned toward each other while doing so, is what most people seem to

It is Tuesday afternoon, and a clinician in private practice sits across from a couple who have been coming for six weeks. One partner is in tears; the other has stopped talking. The therapist, who trained a decade ago in a general modality, can name exactly what is happening in the room — escalation, withdrawal, a conversation that has repeated

She was stirring her coffee for the fourth time when she realized she hadn’t taken a sip. Her phone sat face-up on the table, and her eyes kept flicking to it as if it might ring itself. Two weeks ago she hadn’t known his name. Now his name was the weather inside her head. There is a word for what

“Enjoy sex with your own wife. May the wife that you married when you were young continue to give you joy. May she be as pretty and beautiful as a young deer. May her breasts always make you happy. May she love you in a way that gives you joy.” (Proverbs 5:18-19) Pornography is sneaky because people often engage in