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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Based on my experience and my friend’s:

Is couple therapy not helpful in some circumstances —[b]when there is a dominant personality, for instance? Can’t they just take over and control that sphere too? [/b]

Thoughts? Guidance or criteria on when it’s useful.  Please don’t focus on “abuse” This is about more subtle behaviors that mess up relationships and their chance of success.[/quote]

Yes. This is definitely a potential issue.

I had couples therapy with a boyfriend about 25 years ago. We lived together and were trying to work some things out. He turned the sessions into his personal therapy. Each session was taken up by him going on about how stressful work was and the therapist providing support and tools for him to deal with it. The therapist caught on to it eventually, but by then the relationship was dead anyway. We broke up. Thank heavens. Bullet dodged, that guy was so self-involved and attention seeking -- yuck. And I've been happy with my DH for over 20 years and that awful guy is divorced and has a new gf every 2 years or so. Not surprising.

But yes, this can be a problem. [/quote]

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