marriage counseling - Relationship Behavior Index


In a marriage counseling session the marriage counselor will attempt to identify different relationship behaviors that have caused the couple to feel anger towards each other. These behavioral clashes can often be avoided if each partner manages to recognise and control them. A healthy relationship is not about couples never clashing or having disputes, but, recognising and controlling the behaviors that lead to relationship crisis and potentially divorce. A relationship counselor will also aim to help the couple to understanding and control their attitude and moods in the marriage counseling or relationship counseling session. Below are a list of some of the most common behaviors, moods and attitudes that often lead to relationship crisis:
  • Anger

    Managing Anger may seem impossible, but there are ways to acknowledge and accept your anger without you becoming a slave to it. Anger can make you say or do stupid things. Anger can reduce your social inhibitory mechanism and endanger your partner, physically and emotionally.

  • Anxiety

    Managing anxiety may seem impossible, but there are ways to acknowledge and accept your anxiety without you becoming a slave to it. Here are a few things you should do next time you experience anxiety

  • Attitude and Moods

    Managing your attitude, moods and behavior is the most important skill anyone can master, not just in a marriage but also in life. Managing attitude, moods and behavior doesn't mean burying your feelings, its about acknowledging the mood swings and then discovering what is causing them. After all, there is a reason why you are feeling the moods you are experiencing.

  • Breaking Up

    Breaking up is easy if you know what to do and how to break up in a positive way so as to minimize the pain both you and your partner may feel as a result.

  • Coping with stress

    Coping with stress is important to the survival of any relationship. Nervous Breakdown is getting more and more common due to the lifestyle that people lead. Discover how to cope with stress so you don't let the pressures of life and relationship lead you into having a nervous break down.

  • Deluded

    People can be deluded in a relationship not because they are being ignorant but because they are trying to protect themselves from inconvenient truth. But this self-deception can and will lead to frustration for your partner. Facing the truth can be tough but to grow in a relationship, its vital to face the truth.

  • Emotional energy

    Emotional energy in short terms can be very useful to our survival as long as you know how to control it and not let it control you. But, we often tend to notice and focus on bad moods more so than the good.

  • Listening skill

    Listening skill is the key to any successful relationship. Even so, most of us seem to spend more time focusing on what we want to communicate to bother to listen to what our partner has to say. Effective listening skill is about knowing how to make others feel appreciated, as well as, making them feel as though they can tell you anything.

  • Lifting your mood

    Discover how to lift your mood.

  • Making Up

    Marriage counseling is not just about preventing people from breaking up, but also it can help show you how to make up with a loved one. Making Up should be easy if you know what to do.

  • Melancholy

    Managing melancholy may seem impossible, but there are ways to acknowledge and accept your melancholy without you becoming a slave to it. Here are a few things you should do next time you experience melancholy.

  • Other Oriented Perfectionist

    Other Oriented Perfectionist people can often be hard to live with as they tend to set their expectations, of themselves and others, far too high. Although living with a perfectionist can seem difficult for certain people, for others, they make the perfect partner.

  • Perfectionism

    overcoming perfectionism. Perfectionism can often be hard to live with as they tend to set their expectations, of themselves and others, far too high. Although living with a perfectionist can seem difficult for certain people, for others, they make the perfect partner.

  • Perfectionist

    Perfectionism affects most of us to some degree, but, at its most extreme, it can be dangerous or even deadly.

  • Parenting

    Parenting is hard, specially as research has shown that we tend to bring our kids up based on our own upbringing. But what happens when two people try to bring a child up, considering no two people ever have the same experiences when growing up.

  • Power struggles between parents

    Marriage Counseling can help parents resolve the Power Struggles brought about as the result of differences in parenting techniques. So how could you end the parenting power struggle?

  • Relationship Types

    There are six relationship types which decides how we behave in our relationship and is dictated by our personality and up bringing.

  • Respect

    Respect between couples is important to the success of any relationship. To command respect you must first know how to make others, including your partner, instinctively respect you. The most common cause for divorce in marriage is the unreasonable behavior of the partner.

  • Self Oriented Perfectionist

    Self Oriented Perfectionist people can often be hard to live with as they tend to set their expectations, of themselves and others, far too high. Although living with a perfectionist can seem difficult for certain people, for others, they make the perfect partner.

  • Socially Perfectionist

    Socially Perfectionist believe that other people demand perfection of them. People married to Other-oriented Perfectionist will often adapt by becoming Socially Perfectionist themselves. Socially perfectionist often feels they are never meeting the expectations placed on them by others, which inevitably makes them both helpless and hopeless.

  • Solitude

    Solitude is a basic human need which we often tend to neglect. This desire to find solitude often leads to marital conflicts as we feel trapped or caged in by our partner. There has to be a balance between solitude and the time we spend with our partner.

  • Suicide

    Counseling is not just for troubled marriages. Suicide is becoming one of the biggest killers of killers in the civilized world. But research has shown that its because people who commit suicide feel isolated and alone.



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