How to Ensure Your Relationship Survives the Lockdown

June Brogan is an experienced ‘Relate’ trained couple counsellor, now working for Online Couples Counselling Below, June offers her expert advice on the best way to manage your relationship during the Covid-19 lockdown. Relationships Most relationships are improved by the time we spend apart as well as the special things we do to invest into...

Take Control of You in Your Relationship

The finger of blame   When couples seek online relationship help they are often complaining about how their partner treats them. They firmly believe it’s them that is stopping them from being happy by being ‘thoughtless’ ‘critical’ ‘irresponsible’ or ‘complacent’.  Resulting in the belief they are forced to take control, demand attention and stand up...

Romantic Jealousy & Suspicion

No one enjoys feeling jealous or insecure, even though jealousy is an emotion that almost all of us will experience at one point or another. The problem with jealousy isn’t that it comes up from time to time, it’s when we don’t get hold of it.  It can be frightening to experience what happens when we allow our jealousy to overpower us or to shape the way we feel about ourselves and the world around us.

Emotional Bullying

The most obvious scenario for emotional bullying (also known as emotional abuse) is in an intimate relationship in which a man is the abuser and the woman is the victim. However, a variety of studies show that men and women abuse each other at equal rates*