INTRODUCTION: Two people fall in love, make a commitment for life and start to build a life together. The following period involves positive emotions shrouding the couple relationship, each partnerexpecting a life filled with pleasure and unlimited involvement in the everyday functioning of the person they have chosen. Studies in the field have showed that approximately 50% of the American couples divorce after the first 2-3 years of marriage (Epstein, Baucon, 2003). Perhaps the percentages at the European level are about the same, the exception being provided by a higher number of relationships of consensual union (unofficial relationships).
In such situations, the interest of psychotherapists and psychologists (clinicians or practitioners) to develop structured assessment and intervention approaches for mechanisms that influence the couple life is legitimate. Couple psychotherapy involves a working process that may be extremely complex, demanding, but implicitly filled with satisfactions, for both the couple and the psychotherapist. Researches regarding couple psychotherapy efficiency have shown that the majority of couples ask for professional help in situations of maximum distress and at the end of the intervention, approximately 50% of clients are in a stage of efficient stress management, displaying an optimum level of functionality (Baucom, Shoham, Mueser, Daiuto, & Stickle, 1998).
Regaining satisfaction in couple life means, for most people, one of the critical factors of wellbeing and implicitly of the quality of life. Starting from this assumption, I invite you to join me in the therapeutic journey of a couple that has chosen to deal with the challenges of life and develop new ways to relate.