Archive for the ‘Relationships Blog’ Category
Competition in Relationships
Friday, August 16th, 2013
Too much of our life is fixated on competition. There’s hardly any area in our life where we are not compelled to be competitive. If we dare reveal that we are not a competitive person we risk the derision of our colleagues and peers, and even our partner. We are labelled lazy and we lack ambition. […]
Tags: competing with you partner, competition, relationships | Posted in Relationships Blog |
Jack Osbourne Shows Illness Need Not Affect Your Intimacy
Friday, August 9th, 2013
Let’s face it; most of us worry about our health! The fitness fanatics among us worry if they are doing enough to maintain their health and fitness. The couch potatoes torture themselves with empty promises that tomorrow will be the beginning of a new regime. Our mothers seem to worry incessantly about our health, even […]
Tags: INTIMACY, Jack Osbourne, MS, MS and Intimacy, relationships, Sex Therapy, Sexual Issues | Posted in Relationships Blog |
Love and Compassionate Inspirations…
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
It’s utterly amazing to me where the most inspirational people come from to confound us all. Malala Yousafzai is a 16 year old girl from Pakistan who was shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting herself and other girls to be educated. To the astonishment of all she survived thanks to surgeons and staff […]
Tags: Compassion, Love, The 7 Principles for Making Relationships Work | Posted in Relationships Blog |
Domestic Violence Goes Further Than The Front Pages…
Wednesday, July 10th, 2013
The pictures in the media of Charles Saatchi with his fingers around Nigella Lawson‘s neck has brought the subject of intimate partner abuse into the spotlight. I fear that society’s prurient interest in the lives of the glitterati is much more the reason for this spotlight than the subject itself. Domestic abuse happens behind closed doors […]
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Is Social Media Making us More Anti-Social?
Friday, July 5th, 2013
Maybe it’s me but I am beginning to suspect that ‘tekkys’ are taking over the world. Over the past couple of weeks here in Relationships Ireland we have been inundated with requests asking us to discuss the impact technology, and particularly social media, is having on relationships. Like most things technology can have both a […]
Tags: facebook, relationships, social media, technology, twitter | Posted in Relationships, Relationships Blog |
Sunshine of Your Love
Monday, June 10th, 2013
When the sun shines and the wind doesn’t blow, and the rain is absent, as in the last few days, our inner selves emerge. The majority of us are in better form and we feel better when the sun shines and we are warm. As a counsellor I really enjoy seeing people throw off the […]
Tags: Feel Good, marriage, relationships, Sunshine | Posted in Relationships, Relationships Blog |
What Did I Ever See in You?
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
So often in Relationships Ireland we hear at least one person in the room say ‘I don’t know what the hell I saw in you’. This is usually followed by a barrage of criticism and destructive abuse. What the person ‘saw’ was someone who was like them. They recognised traits or even beliefs that mirrored […]
Tags: attraction, Love, marriage, relationships | Posted in Relationships, Relationships Blog |
Love is Blind…
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
Most of us at some point in our lives wonder what life is all about. We spend a great deal of our time ‘searching’. Often we are not aware we are doing this and when we do realise what we have been doing we ask ourselves about the purpose of our lives. Our purpose, dear […]
Tags: Love, relationships | Posted in Relationships, Relationships Blog |
Our Services
Saturday, April 28th, 2012
At Relationships Ireland we provide a range of services to help and support individuals and couples with their relationships challenges. Our current services include: Couple counselling Many relationships run into difficulties from time to time. Our couples counselling service is focused on helping our clients transform conflicts and difficulties into healthy and satisfying intimate relationships. We […]
Tags: Co-Parenting Consultations, Couple Counselling, Marriage Preparation, Separation Counselling, Separation Support Services, Sex Therapy, Teen Between | Posted in Relationships Blog |
Relationships Ireland Celebrates 50 Years with Annual Conference
Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Relationships Ireland is delighted to announce that it will be marking its 50th birthday with a very special conference at the Mansion House, Dublin on Saturday, June 30th 2012. A keynote address will be provided by world renowned expert on marriage and relationships, Dr. John Gottman, who was a regular contributor to the ‘Oprah Winfrey […]
Tags: 50th Conference. John Gottman, Charles Handy, John Sharry, Marie Murray | Posted in Events, Relationships Blog |