How Relationships Affect Your Happiness

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How Relationships Affect Your Happiness
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• Humans are inherently social animals.
  Throughout their lives, they form bonds with
  other humans in order to thrive in society.
  Positive relationships have more than just the
  obvious psychological effects, such as happiness
  and contentment in life, but also boost the
  long-term health of individuals and can even
  account for a longer life span with a happy,
  fulfilled life. On the other hand, negative
  relationships have adverse effects on a person,
  often becoming the cause of stress, reluctance to
  form new relationships, or worse, induce anxiety,
  depression, and long-term emotional trauma.

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• Being Happy with Oneself is Important to Nurture
  Good Relationships with Others
• We can never have happy relationships with
  others if we are not happy with our own lives,
  and it is very important to be happy with
  ourselves before we pursue a relationship. Often,
  people chase relationships as they are not
  content with their lives and end up in
  repetitive, toxic cycles that only sap their
  energy.

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• So first, a person should learn to be able to
  handle themselves before deciding to handle the
  emotional weight of a relationship. Treatments
  such as counseling for depression, anxiety, EMDR,
  in addition to exercises like meditation, yoga,
  and mindfulness, often lead an individual to be
  able to be content with their own selves and lead
  to better relationships with others.

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• How Relationships Affect Teens and Adolescents
• Love knows no age and no boundaries, and it is
  important to realize as we grow older, that
  teenage love is full of obstacles and challenges
  we overcome as we grow older. To this end, teen
  therapy, involving teenagers in counseling them
  so that they can understand their needs and learn
  to navigate the world.

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• Teen therapy or adolescent therapy is often
  useful to ensure that they get the guidance they
  need. In addition to romantic relationships,
  familial relationships and friendships also
  contribute to the development of adolescents and
  teenagers. Often, due to absentee parents,
  military life, separated parents, divorce, toxic
  friendships, a child can go down a dark path.
  Treating child, or a teenager, through the use of
  therapy, can overcome problems such as ADHD,
  trauma, and anger issues.

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• How Outside Counsel Can Help Nurture Happier
  Relationships
• It is extremely important in relationships to be
  able to understand when there is a need for
  professional guidance towards navigating their
  relationship is essential. To that end, couples
  therapy is beneficial, as it can help partners
  reconnect and be able to discuss their emotional
  needs and resolve any issues. Emotionally focused
  couples therapy is often used to forge a
  long-lasting sense of happiness in a
  relationship, to repair the fractures that have
  formed in between them, and to discuss their
  needs with each other.

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• Premarital counseling may help couples connect
  and understand each other better to work towards
  a long-term relationship. In marriages,
  counseling often makes a major difference,
  dealing with issues such as postpartum
  depression/anxiety, inability to satisfy your
  partner, unsaid complaints, and unresolved
  disputes. Sex therapy and counseling targeted
  towards bringing couples together is favorable.
  In case of any permanent, irreversible damage,
  divorce discernment, as well as co-parenting
  therapy assures that even if the relationship is
  beyond saving, neither do the spouses, nor the
  children carry over any emotional damage due to
  the severing of the bond.

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• Hence, it is very important to understand that
  in order to have a positive life, forming
  positive relationships proves to be very
  fruitful, and seeking professional help can often
  help with the process, and give a new perspective
  towards life. If we can help with building,
  developing, or cultivating relationships, please
  schedule a time to speak at our locations in
  Woodbridge, Virginia, Fairfax, Virginia or our
  telehealth options.