Welcome to The Relationship Resource!

Are you parenting a young child and feeling discouraged by the changes that your marital relationship has undergone since you and your spouse became parents? Are you an expectant parent with questions about how the arrival of your new baby will impact your marriage? Are you feeling loved enough these days? Are you interested in learning practical, efficient, and research-based strategies to improve the quality of your marriage?

The Relationship Resource is dedicated to enriching family life through consultation and education. Services are designed to enhance the quality of marital relationships during the transition to parenthood and the early parenting years. We provide expectant parents and parents of young children educational seminars and consultations that offer research-based strategies to optimize marital connection and intimacy.

The Reality: Becoming a parent changes your relationship to everything and everyone! While bringing a baby into the world is a joyous experience, the demands of parenting a newborn baby are often overwhelming. The transition to parenthood frequently marks the onset of a particularly distressing time for marital relationships. In fact, research indicates that more than two thirds of couples experience a profound deterioration in marital satisfaction following the birth of their first child.

The Good News: Fortunately, there is a great deal of knowledge that couples can learn as well as skills that couples can acquire for the purpose of improving marital connection. This theory and set of skills may be useful to couples who are preparing for a successful transition to parenthood as well as those who are already parenting young children and wishing they were feeling more connected as husband and wife.

The Potential: Children flourish in environments in which their parents are connected to each other and able to establish strong co-parenting alliances. One of the greatest advantages that parents can offer their children is a strong marriage. When the marriage serves as the foundation on which a family is built and sustained, children experience the sense of stability that allows them to grow to their full potential.

“When love and skill meet expect a masterpiece” John Ruskin