LOVEBONDS

LOVEBONDS

By Terri DiMatteo, LPCSociety & CultureRelationships
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LOVEBONDS episodes

  • Partners With Emotional Limitations
    Can your relationship truly satisfy if your partner has an emotional limitation such as Aspergers or a personality disorder? If you’ve “tried everything” and can never seem to reach your partner — and feel lonely and frustrated in your relationship — this could be why.
    11 min
  • 121: What does it mean to repair a relationship?
    Is the absence of fighting or simply ‘getting along’ indicative of a healed relationship? How about enjoying one another or being polite? How much does mutually expressing fondness and admiration go? Relationship and couple counselor Terri DiMatteo provides you with clear insights on how to assess relationship restoration.
    13 min
  • Special Offer!
    Have you thought about coming in for a session but have some questions? Now is your chance! Open Door Therapy is offering a FREE 15-minute phone consultation with Terri now until December 20, 2019! Find out how. Have a listen. (2-minutes)
    3 min
  • 120: Can Your Relationship Survive an Affair?
    The future of a relationship is no longer certain upon the discovery of an affair. Four key elements help determine the likelihood that a relationship that has been traumatized by infidelity can endure.  Relationship and couple counselor Terri DiMatteo, LPC of Open Door Therapy in Westfield, NJ, will help in determining the survivability of a relationship impacted by infidelity.
    16 min
  • 119: Why the "Best Friend" Relationship Model Doesn't Work
    Do you refer to your partner as your 'best friend'? 
    On the surface, this seems fine enough. After all, best friends are generally close confidants that enjoy one another. There's a warmth, familiarity and camaraderie between close friends - so what could possibly be amiss in referencing your partner as your 'bestie'? 
    Listen as relationship and couple counselor Terri DiMatteo unpacks the reasons why the 'best friend' model doesn't work for romantic pairs and suggests another relationship model that is more akin to the romantic relationship.
    13 min
  • 118: The Function of a Romantic Relationship
    We've all heard relationship advice, have seen relationship memes on social media and have heard 'tips' and 'dos and don'ts' when it comes to the romantic relationship: but what are these ideas and suggestions based on? Many of these suggestions imply that if just one person in the relationship would make changes, the relationship would improve. 
    Unfortunately, many such notions add to the confusion and misunderstanding already surrounding romantic relationships. Before you can restore or repair a romantic relationship you need to know what its function is, how it works and what it's supposed to do for you. 
    Relationship and couple counselor, Terri DiMatteo of Open Door Therapy in Westfield, New Jersey unpacks it all in an easy to understand and helpful way.
    18 min
  • 116: Three Problems With Online Dating
    Online dating is easy, convenient and popular. Many a pair have met, fallen in love and married through online dating apps - so what's wrong with meeting people through dating apps?
    Relationship and couple counselor Terri DiMatteo, LPC of Open Door Therapy shares ways in which online dating works against building a safe and trusting romantic relationship.
    13 min
  • 115: One Reason Why Affair Recovery is So Difficult

    The discovery of an affair immediately catapults a couple into a relationship crisis. The future of the relationship is no longer guaranteed as the couple asks themselves, "Can we survive this?" The task of rebuilding trust and safety is daunting. Listen as affair recovery expert Terri DiMatteo, LPC of Open Door Therapy unpacks a particularly tricky challenge in affair recovery.

    13 min

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LoveBonds is among the best Couples Therapy podcasts ranked by traffic, social media followers, domain authority, and freshness by FeedSpot and is among the Best Infidelity Podcasts according to Podessy!