Relationship Advice for Couples: Laws of Love – Dr Sue Johnson

We know what love is, why it matters, what it does for us, and what responses make or break our love relationships. This quiet revolution, has all happened in the last 20 years. But can love last?

The evidence is that if you know how to do it, it can. Brain scans tell us that some long time lover’s brains respond in the same way, with the same excitement as those of new lovers to pictures of their beloved. If you can reach out and hold onto each other as you face life’s dragons together, every dragon you face makes the bond of trust and love between you stronger.

We can have the loving lasting relationships we all long for. But only if we learn Love Sense. We have solved the “mystery’ called love and we can learn to shape it. Dr Sue Johnson offers Relationship Advice for Couples by sharing insights into the doorway into greater happiness, better mental and physical health, more secure, resilient and confident adults and more loving partnerships and families.

Couples Workshops

To build on the relationship even more, Angela Fox offers a Couples Workshop in Cape Town where couples learn the principles of Emotionally Focused Therapy, which fast tracks couples, by offering a vast amount of condensed knowledge and experience that the couple therapist cannot offer in limited session times.

Couples Therapy and Relationship Counseling

Couples therapy has ripple effects on other relationships. When you clear the space between you and create an intentional, conscious, more relationally mature way of relating with your partner, this learning will extend to your relationship with your children, your loved ones and friends and even with others who “push your buttons”.

To quote Dr Sue Johnson: “EFT is based on 50 years of research into human bonding and 30 years of research from our lab into helping couples connect and thrive. We really don’t have to simply fall in and out of love anymore. We now have a map to the territory called love and we can empower couples by showing them new systematic ways to take control of dances of disconnection and conflict and, even more important, help each other move into the open close embrace that is a secure loving bond.”

Emotionally focused couples therapy, developed by Canadian psychologist, Dr Sue Johnson, is based on 30 years of research conducted on adult love and the process of bonding in couples.  EFT Relationship Therapy is based on attachment theory, which states that we need to feel safe in our connections with others and that we are made healthier by emotional contact.