– Relationship Counseling in Nashville for Dating Couples

Last Updated on November 7, 2014 by Chris Roberts

RELATIONSHIP COUNSELING IN NASHVILLE FOR DATING COUPLES

Relationship counseling in Nashville exists for a myriad of couples. Relationship counseling can be for marriages, for premarital couples, for dating couples and even for friendships! I wish that more friendships used relationship counseling for their difficulties, but rarely does this happen. It’s been a joy to work with so many dating couples who have used relationship counseling to work on their struggles. The world of dating brings about so many different complications than marital relationships. In dating, we are each working so hard to impress our partner. We are always aware of trying to put our best foot forward. The key component to dating couples is there is always the natural fear that the relationship may end. The very act of dating is a trial period to determine if the person we are spending so much time with is worth spending the rest of our lives with!

The main tension in dating couples rests in the paradox of wanting to get to know their true self, while wanting to only show our best parts. Relationship counseling in Nashville can help dating couples get to more core issues of each person. We all have issues! Having “issues” is a normal part of being human. The real question is: Are we compatible enough to deal effectively with each of our issues! Relationship counseling in Nashville can help partners get a “clearer” picture of true self of each person. Of course, the paradox of hiding our true self raises it head here. We want to know our dating partner intimately and we want them to know us intimately, but we are scared to death that they may not accept our true self.

WHAT CAN RELATIONSHIP COUNSELING IN NASHVILLE FOR DATING COUPLES DO FOR US?

We are never as good at hiding our “true selves” as we think we are. A good relationship counselor can help point out the areas where we aren’t hiding our true selves as well as we thought we were. These are highly tenuous areas, because we are just dying to believe that our dating partner might not notice when we “slip up” and let a core part of us surface. Relationship counseling can provide a safe place for each person to be more free in recognizing the truer parts of themselves that might emerge. At our core, I believe we are all longing to love and be loved. We don’t want to hurt other people, especially those we love. But the masks we carry to avoid deep rejection sometimes blind us to the ways in which we harm others. Relationship counseling can help us understand in better ways why we act the way we do, either to our partner or to others.

Relationship counseling in Nashville can help partners better know their patterns for living in relationship. All of us have a greater tendency to hide or lash out when there is conflict. Neither way is better, but we always want to believe that the way WE handle conflict is better than others. Relationship counseling can help partners put better words to the tension they feel in conflict and in connection, and then better be able to article what is really going on for them. When we have the ability to better express what we are feeling, we have the greatest chance of connecting with those we love. For some dating couples, their styles for interaction and connection don’t coincide in the best possible manner for long term happiness. For other couples, the ways they hide their true selves keeps them from realizing how compatible they might be!

If you are dating and looking for help in determining how to connect with your partner, then relationship counseling for dating couples might be a great resource for you!