by Susie Rome | Aug 18, 2026 | Article, Couples Therapy, Relationships
Lonely in a Long-Term Relationship: What to Do When You Feel Alone Inside Your Marriage There is a particular kind of loneliness that is more confusing and, in some ways, more painful than ordinary solitude: the loneliness of feeling fundamentally alone inside a...
by Susie Rome | Jul 21, 2026 | Article, Couples Therapy, Relationships
Individual Therapy vs. Couples Therapy: How to Know Which One You Actually Need One of the most common questions people bring to an initial consultation is whether to pursue individual therapy, couples therapy, or both simultaneously. It is a reasonable question and...
by Susie Rome | Jun 13, 2026 | Article, Couples Therapy, Relationships
When Relationships Become Exhausting: Recognizing and Recovering From Emotional Burnout as a Couple There is a particular kind of relational exhaustion that does not make the news and does not usually bring people to a crisis point, but quietly erodes the quality of a...
by Susie Rome | May 9, 2026 | Article, Couples Therapy, Relationships
Codependency and the Cost of Disappearing: How to Show Up in Relationships Without Losing Yourself Codependency is one of those terms that gets used broadly and imprecisely, which means many people who actually live with it do not recognize themselves in the...
by Susie Rome | Apr 11, 2026 | Article, Couples Therapy, Relationships
Intimacy After Loss of Trust: How Couples Rebuild Connection Following Betrayal Trust, once broken in a relationship, does not simply repair itself with time. Time alone tends to produce one of two outcomes: a kind of numbness in which both partners go through the...
by Susie Rome | Feb 14, 2026 | Article, Couples Therapy, Relationships
Love Is a Practice: Building a Relationship That Grows Stronger Over Time We absorb a particular story about love from the culture we grow up in: that it is primarily a feeling, something that either exists or does not, something that arrives unbidden and, if we are...