Posts Tagged ‘relationships’
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 |
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 |
Love second time around
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
When I hear the expression ‘hope triumphs over experience’ I am reminded of couples who are brave enough to commit a second time.
Tags: relationships | Posted in Marriage Counselling, Relationships Blog |
Announcing the launch of Relationships Ireland (formerly MRCS)
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
The vital role of connection and intimacy in long-term relationships and the importance of maintaining this through shared activities was the message delivered at the launch of Relationships Ireland yesterday. Formerly known, for almost 50 years, as the Marriage and Relationship Counselling Service (MRCS), the organisation was relaunched as Relationships Ireland by the Minister for […]
Tags: relationships | Posted in Events, Launch, Relationships Blog |