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Marriage Relationship - How To Manage Your Relationship/Marriage?

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Dr. Nisha KhannaPsychologist • 24 Years Exp.Ph. D - Psychology
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Every married couple undergoes relationship troubles, but these troubles should not linger for a long time otherwise you might end up facing dreadful consequences. If you want to save your married life by maintaining a smooth relation with your partner, then you have to look for the best solutions that can resolve marital issues. 

How to manage marital relationships? 

  1. Maintaining Trust: Since trust is the base of every relationship, therefore you should make special effort in maintaining the same. Unresolved issues should be resolved quickly and there should be transparent communication between the married couples. Some of the special qualities that should be maintained in order to maintain trust within a marital relationship in long run are being on time, consistency, being sensitive towards feelings, avoiding lies, sharing feelings, respecting partner's feelings, avoiding jealousy and others. 
  2. Healthy Communication: If the problems remain unresolved, then more and more conflicts will be invited. Have open discussions and clear up your points so that confusions can be eliminated. If you make efforts in understanding the real causes, then only the problems can be resolved. You need to put yourself in the shoes of the partner and understand where the person is coming from. Most conflicts occur because we only see our view points and not that of others. 
  3. Giving time to the relationship: You can maintain your marital relationship in a healthy state only by considering the married life as the prior issue. Keep your marriage above every other social thing and then only relationship can be made secured. Give time for repairing all dubs and defects of your relationship. In this case, you can also take the help of any expert marriage counselor. Spend some quality time with each other so that the warmth of your relationship can be maintained. 
  4. Tackling monetary problems: Do not allow any conflict to come into your relationship just because of a pathetic financial condition. It is important for both the partners to put-in efforts in saving money so that monthly expenses can be kept under strict control. A perfect budget needs to be scheduled so that financial strength can be restored. If you are incapable of catering financial support, support your partner at least mentally so that he can come out of the financial trouble as soon as possible. 
  5. Maintain a Happy Sexual Life: Create a proper schedule for lovemaking in order to maintain a healthy sex life. You should try to know the sexual needs of your partner so that you can fulfil the expectations. 

Why is it important to go to Marriage Counseling? 

The couple has decided to try to improve their relationship, but neither of the two know, how, and where to start. A marriage counselor can help analyze behavior patterns in certain situations that lead to conflict. Once the behavior patterns are identified, they can be modified. 

Marriage counselors can help create a more accurate picture of who the partner really is, rather than whom we want him or her to be, and this can help settle misunderstandings and miscommunication. If you know your partners desires and motivations, it is much easier to find common ground. 

Knowing your partners desires also enables you to respect and value them and in some cases new common interests can be found. To know your own motivations and background emotions can also lead to better decision making in situations of conflict. Hidden agendas can be combated, when they are in the open and no longer hidden. In situations that involve depression, or alcohol or substance abuse, visiting a marriage counselor can strengthen the healthy partner and might lead the other partner to seek individual treatment for their disease. A marriage counselor can help find the reasons that are behind dishonest behavior like cheating.

In case you have a concern or query you can always consult an expert & get answers to your questions!

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