Carrie and Josh are back to discuss the phenomenon of “Changing the Rules in Committed Couple Relationships.” Many of us don’t think about relationships as having a governing rules that are mostly implicitly agreed upon by the couple, but some are also explicitly agreed upon. Regardless, as relationships grow and evolve over time, so do the rules that govern the relationships.

Our natural desire to resist this change and keep things the same can sometimes get in the way of our own relational and personal growth. Eventually the relationship cannot sustain the old rule system, thus, a theoretical collapse of the governing rule system occurs creating quite the disruption in couple relationships.

No one knows this better than couples who are in recovery for betrayal trauma recovery, whether it be part of seks addiction or affair recovery. The discovery of a partner’s infidelity creates such an abrupt and powerful blast that the collapse of the rule system is overwhelmingly evident and life-changing.

What does this “changing of the rules” then mean for couples? What rules get changed? Do any stay the same? How do we identify the old rules? How do we establish new rules? All these questions and more will be discussed in this LIVE episode of Therapists’ Take.

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Books Discussed:
John Gottman's "Severn Principles for Making a Marriage Work" - https://amzn.to/3utfB2T
Yuval Harari's "Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind" - https://amzn.to/47io33L
Helen Fisher's "Why We Love" - https://amzn.to/3ulVbsI
Pete Enn's The Since of Certainty - https://amzn.to/40LrJbV
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Resources:
Therapist Directory: https://www.psychologytoday.com
Betrayal Trauma Therapist Directory: https://iitap.com/search/custom.asp?id=5357
Domestic Violence Hotline: https://www.thehotline.org/
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