Few people who see a Houston marriage therapist are likely to cite television as the primary source of their relationship problems, but TV may have a bigger influence on some relationships than you might think. I recently came across an interesting study by Mass Communication and Society that surveyed 392 people who had been married […]
There’s an old adage in the Houston relationship therapist community (and just about everywhere else) that opposites attract. To that end, there are plenty of healthy relationships between introverts and extroverts. Different personality types certainly don’t have to spell marriage problems. If you’re in a relationship with a partner who has a different personality type […]
Here’s something you might not have anticipated hearing from a Houston relationship counseling center: your personality when you married isn’t necessarily the same as your personality now. A study released in 2012 from the University of Manchester had 7,500 subjects complete a personality questionnaire, then asked them to complete the questionnaire again 4 years later. […]
In Houston marriage counseling, I’ll sometimes meet someone who says something like, “My parents have been married for 50 years and are still crazy about each other… I want my marriage to be like that.” Hearing these kinds of statements have made me think about the idea of relationship role models and whether couples need […]
