When people call me for couples counselling, they are often feeling worried or even desperate to fix their relationship and ask “Is my relationship broken beyond repair”? There is no simple answer, as everyone’s situation, environment, strengths and challenges vary. The other truism about relationships is that it takes two people to fix a relationship and only one to end it. As a counsellor, I don’t have a crystal ball that tells me absolutely whether a relationship is beyo

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