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So what happens when only one person’s voice or feelings are heard in a romantic relationship (or at least much more heard than their partner)? Well, things get wonky in the relationship if they weren’t already.  This imbalance ends up touching so many if not all of the relationship: the communication, maintaining a living space, child rearing, socially, sexually emotional intimacy etc. And there are a whole host of reasons or situations where one person has lost their voice, or chosen not to...

In a fit of anger and hurt and being lost in a trauma vortex after the discovery of her partners infidelity, she told her family about it, his and some of their friends. Her family and friends mostly were pretty shocked, and encouraged her in subtle and not so subtle ways to leave the marriage. She found herself in a bind. As she discovered more info about the affair her partner was having, she did not want to tell her family and friends more, in part because she wasn’t sure if she wanted to...

When a couple has sexual struggles, there are often important meanings that one or both in the couple ascribe to these problems. Also, there tends to be meaning making in the way the couple has responded to these issues and to each other. There are many different sexual struggles couples endure. To explain how making meaning of sexual struggles can impact a couple, I’ll draw on examples from erectile dysfunction (ED) and premature ejaculation (PE).  For men struggling either of these, it can...