Relationship Coach

How can relationship coaching help newly weds?

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  Better Understand Your Spouse’s Expectations
  The transition from dating/ engaged to married often brings along subsequent changes in the expectations of the partners in a relationship- be it emotional, physical or financial. When unmet, such expectations turn into disappointments, and lead to discord in marital relationships. A session with a relationship coach is often a safe space for couples to openly discuss their apprehensions and assumptions with their partner, that they would otherwise not readily communicate on their own. The unbiased take of a relationship coach on the expectations of one partner from the other can also help the couple set realistic goals in their marriage.
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  Set Healthy Boundaries In Time
  Setting boundaries is more difficult in marriages than in dating relationships, and also more important. Healthy boundaries- emotional, physical and financial- ensure a healthy marital life. However, when drawn insensitively, even a valid boundary can be misread as an attempt to be controlling. Chalking out important personal boundaries early in the marriage, under the non-aligned counsel of a relationship coach, can prevent many tiffs from being caused over the same.
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  Practice Honesty and Vulnerability
  Being open and unfiltered with each other about your emotions, especially your insecurities, is most important in marital relationships. A mutual commitment to be unfiltered about your flaws and apprehensions goes a long way in ensuring efficient communication in a relationship. While initiating the practice of vulnerability can be challenging to do on your own, the guidance of a relationship coach can be very helpful in the matter. Sound relationship coaching from the early years of marriage can help build the foundations of a lasting marriage, where the spouses are honest about their feelings and opinions.
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  Communicate Clearly and Comprehend Effectively
  Most complications and disputes in a marital relationship can be traced back to miscommunication between the spouses. However, good communication calls for more than just listening to your partner’s perspective- no amount of conversations can help you get through to your partner unless the other person is open to understanding your problems. An integral part of relationship coaching involves assisting couples in effectively comprehending their partner’s point of view. At times when emotions run high in a marriage and each spouse is only concerned with protecting their own interests, the neutral mediation of a relationship coach is helpful for couples to see sense, to identify the faults in their own opinion and accept the rational bits of their partner’s perspective. When taken earlier in a marriage, sound relationship coaching teaches couples to not only communicate clearly, but also comprehend effectively, thus saving them from many conflicts down the road.
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  Build Trust
  Trust-building is an imperative exercise for couples, particularly for those who have not known each other for very long before marriage. A certified relationship coach is experienced in assisting couples in building trust in each other by engaging the two in important conversations that might otherwise be difficult to initiate.