Relationships
Rebuilding Trust After Conflict: A Guide for Couples
Every couple fights. What determines the health of a relationship isn’t the presence of conflict, but what happens in the repair that follows.
Emotionally focused therapy works from a simple premise: beneath most arguments is an unmet need for closeness or reassurance. When couples learn to hear that need instead of the words used to express it, the entire dynamic shifts.
Repair looks like curiosity instead of defensiveness, and vulnerability instead of protection. It takes practice, but couples who learn this skill build a resilience that outlasts any single disagreement.
