Have you noticed a pattern of frequent arguments with your significant other? Are these episodes predictable? Is there a core reason or theme? What have you tried to do about it? Did it work? Are things escalating in your relationship? If they are, that’s a sign that relationship counseling should be seriously considered. Through communication...
Infidelity and the Ashley Madison Hack
Dr. Elsa M. Orlandini – a leading Miami-area psychologist and relationship therapist, offers expert insight into the underlying issues of the Ashley Madison scandal. While many people are on pins and needles waiting to find out if their partners were outed as unfaithful by the Ashley Madison hack, we ask ourselves why infidelity is such...
Addressing Failure in Relationships
Couples counseling can help address failure in a relationship. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being an almost perfect relationship, how would you rate your relationship with your significant other? Relationship ratings consisting of 4’s, 5’s and 6’s are livable averages. A relationship rating of 7 and higher means that you are...
Premarital Counseling & Divorce
Premarital Counseling & Divorce – What are the Facts A 2009 Master’s thesis makes a strong case for premarital counseling with the following information. On average, marriages in America last seven years. Half of the divorced couples re-couple with someone else. Forty percent of families have one married-divorced spouse. One-third of adults do not view...
Unfaithful Partners , A Snapshot – Miami Marriage Counselor
Unfaithful Partners – A Snapshot Infidelity: When, Where Why (2010), the Demographic Yearbook of the United Nations, reported that in the 1990’s 93% of women and 92% of men married by age forty-nine. In the United States today experts project that 85% to 90% of women and men will marry. Monogamy is the norm for most...
Can a marriage recover from a cheating spouse?
Can Marriage Recover from a Cheating Spouse? In The Trauma and Mental Health Report titled Love Is War: Post-Infidelity Stress Disorder, the term PISD or Post-Infidelity Stress Disorder is defined as a parallel disorder with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) because they both share the stress and emotional turmoil that is re-experienced through flashbacks, painful memories...