marriage counseling, a part of relationship counseling is a course of action of counseling the two partners of a relationship to better understand and recognize each other’s emotions, reconcile and handle repeated patterns of distress and troublesome situations.
The man or womans or institutions involved in the method of counseling are known as counselors, if the relationship is a relationship, they are known as relationship counselors.
With the increasing westernization in many elements of the world, there has been a continuous drift towards a nuclear or isolated family and the marital and household counseling have become much common. There are many governmental institutions and social service institutions who train different volunteers to help those who are in the need of a relationship counseling.
The intimacy between the partners of a relationship leads to pleasure and stability. Each partner of a relationship has to perform few duties at each and each step in order to make it strong enough and to develop a trust between the two partners.
The basic thing required in the process of relationship counseling is the communication and interaction between the two partners which generates a safe natural environment for both of them to express and hear each other’s emotions.
The aspects responsible for making maladaptive patterns in a relationship are jealousy, anger, ego, insecurity, arrogance, greed, poor communication, ill-health, household interference, third man or woman and so on.
These components if continued for long, may create a lot of misunderstandings in a relationship and can have a negative impact on the same. More often, there is an interaction of two or more factors in Breaking of these delicate relationships.
The elementary principles for counseling are:
1. To establish the aspects responsible for creating confusions.
2. To create a positive bonding in the relationship.
3. To respect each other’s feelings.
4. To listen each other’s emotions and emotions.
5. To provide a confidential dialogue betwen the two to normalize their emotions.