How Relationship Coaching can save your Relationship

Introduction

One will have to agree that maintaining relationships takes sacrifice and selflessness. At the same time, one is always advised to keep oneself intact and self-respect. It is challenging in a way because one has to be two opposite ideas at the same time. The person has to be respectful and loving to oneself; yet, kind and generous to the other. This is a challenging approach especially to partners with contrast personalities. Different personalities come with distinct and sometimes opposite values. When one clashes with the other, conflict is unavoidable leading to anger, disrespect, and resentment. This is where the role of a relationship coach comes in.

What is a relationship coach?

A relationship coach is a kind of life advisor who focuses their coaching or counseling on couples and their relationships. Their coverage is communication, positive intervention, conflict resolution, and intimacy. A relationship coach serves to promote loving and healthy commitment for couples who need help in addressing their internal challenges.

Why consult a relationship coach?

Some people may be adamant about consulting a relationship coach. Understandably, one is approached with a challenge (and perhaps, an unwillingness) of disclosing personal information to a third party. In truth, personal problems must be resolved between partners. However, when things are too overwhelming, partners become covered with impatience, anxiety, and fatigue from “fixing” the relationship that a barrier is created between them. Sometimes, a positive intervention must come in for the communication to open. Partners must keep in mind that to save their special “bond”, they must learn to consider other positive alternatives when situations between them become too difficult to approach.

Benefits of relationship coaching

Alleviation – This is the purpose of consultation, to acquire relief (whether temporary or remarkable) and to release held-up frustration and anxiety caused by a strenuous relationship. The relationship coach act as an emotional outlet for partners.

Breaking the negative cycle – A relationship becomes toxic when partners fall into an emotional and mental negative cycle. When conflicts are not resolved, arguments become repetitive and forgiveness is forgotten. It can lead to personal destruction which is the reason why a medium is needed to intervene.

Positivity – When couples are allowed to recall and reflect on their good memories with one another, their bond is strengthened. They learn to look back on how they met each other and how their connection was created in the first place.

Resolution of conflict – This is one of the goals for couples. Consulting a relationship coach is an effort to resolve their arguments by seeking a common unbiased medium. Together with the relationship coach, they look for solutions in adjusting and accepting difficult situations (e.g. from annoying behaviors to serious mistakes).

Communication and Commitment – couples must always be reminded that keeping a relationship is should not be imposing. It is always a choice leading to self-contentment and personal growth. Commitment is maintained not because of longevity but because partners choose to stay. This is possible through positive communication, interpersonal understanding, healthy conversations, sincere compliments, and equal discussion of solving the problem.