Couples Counseling for blended families:
for a Peaceful and Harmonious Family in Miami-Dade, Florida.
Is it possible to experience healthy relationships in blended families?
Your relationship feels so safe, healthy, and easy when it is just the two of you, but when your kids, his kids, and our kids all come around, it gets HARD, fast. You both have feelings from your divorce, which impacts how you parent. Ultimately, being happy together as a new family unit gets in the way.
You carry on guilt for leaving your kids behind, and you are aware that it negatively impacts how you raise your kids. Your partner blames you for your kids being so mean and spoiled. When you try to show any issue concerning their family, they get angry or ignore it, and you feel betrayed and angry.
You feel misunderstood and under a lot of pressure, which makes you resentful and angry. You do your best to please everyone, but everyone seems unhappy. You feel colossal stress and do not understand why everyone can’t talk and get along, as it would make your life so much easier!
You're grappling with a sense of uncertainty about your partner's true self, as they seem to transform when in the presence of their family or others. You yearn for a relationship where you can always be authentic without pretense or adaptation.
Will this relationship ever get better?
You worry about whether this can ever change. And, if it can't, you fear it will end a great relationship. You want to accept one another for who you are, but it is hard when there are patterns that are so painful. You have not been intimate for a long time now, and you are afraid that your relationship will not go that far. You want a trustworthy, respectful, and meaningful relationship between yourselves and your extended family but need help conciliating your relationship as a couple with your extended family.
You want to feel appreciated and loved in your relationship
Healthy relationships have in common good communication, respect, trust, friendship, and healthy physical and emotional boundaries. I help couples understand family dynamics and power struggles within the family members.
We will explore ways to better communicate and set boundaries in a healthy way to improve respect, trust, and contentment and minimize power struggles among family members. Upon termination, you will feel your relationship stronger and ready for renewed vows.
My specialties working in couples therapy include premarital counseling, parenting counseling, and discernment counseling.
Ready to make a great blended family?
If you are ready to change negative patterns of interaction in your relationships and improve communication to reignite the quality of your relationship, contact me for a 15-minute consultation to learn how better I can help you.