After several months of hard work (with a little blood, sweat and tears!) Polaris Counseling is proud to announce the launch of it’s new website! Our diverse new site provides a more streamlined, personable and user friendly platform for our readers to explore our services, get to know our counselors, read our self-help articles, subscribe […]
Continue ReadingFive Ways to Show Your Spouse You Love Them
Love. That’s a tricky one. What is love? How do we know it really exists? Will we ever find it? If we do, can we keep it? These are all questions that we have asked ourselves periodically throughout our lives, and may still be asking today. We’ve all heard a friend or family member proclaim […]
Continue ReadingFive Ways to Screw up Your Relationship
There are literally thousands of ways we can disconnect with our partner throughout the course of our relationship. We can say mean things in the “heat of battle”, ignore one another at a social event or even forget an anniversary. But alone, these isolated and random events don’t necessarily mean that the relationship is destined […]
Continue ReadingFive Ways to Deal with an Affair
An estimated 30 to 60 percent of couples will experience their partner cheating on them at some time during the course of their relationship. Considering that roughly 50 percent of all marriages, 60 percent of second marriages and 73 percent of third marriages or more end in divorce, it’s likely that this number would be […]
Continue ReadingFive Ways to Communicate More Effectively With Your Partner
Over the past several decades, roughly 50 percent of all marriages and 60 percent of all re-marriages have ended in divorce. Many studies point toward money as the leading cause, while others blame the birth of a couple’s first child, extra-marital affairs or blended families for the shocking decline in marital success. While these are […]
Continue ReadingShannon Recommends Reading…
Shannon Aldridge Recommends: Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Contentment – Linda Dillow Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself – Melody Beattie The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman’s Guide to Emotional Strength and Self Esteem – Sue Patton Thoele Bring Up Boys – James […]
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