Valentines Day is fast approaching. What a great time to work on a relationships and have hope! The varieties of relationships I work with are endless. We know that “love forms, deforms or transforms” people. It is so important to life that now is the time to take a positive action.

Love has a profound effect on your desire to be a great partner, mother, daughter or friend. A sense of hopelessness is often part of couples counseling. All-or-nothing thinking, irritability or sadness are part of depression but do not have to be part of our relationship thinking. (Couples often wait six years to enter counseling.) A greater connection in a major relationship, can reduce that depression.

If you do not have the intimacy, support and connection you desire it is possible. Use this time to learn a new skill or take a step toward someone. If you have had abuse, hurt, betrayal in the past there are principles to use to recover and feel safe in close relationships.