Remember the excitement, curiosity, and connection you felt when you first started dating your partner? Over time, life’s stresses—kids, work, finances—often push dating to the backburner, leaving couples feeling disconnected. At Thrive Marriage & Family Counseling, we believe intentional dating in marriage is the key to rebuilding intimacy, reducing conflict, and strengthening your relationship. By choosing to invest time, effort, and fun back into your partnership, you can restore love, deepen connection, and create a thriving marriage that lasts.

Confirmation bias is the tendency to interpret information in ways that support our existing beliefs, which can distort how we see our partners over time. Small, unresolved issues in relationships can accumulate and lead us to view our partner more negatively, even ignoring their efforts to connect. This biased thinking often creates a cycle of emotional distance and misunderstanding, with both partners feeling unseen or unloved. By recognizing our assumptions and choosing curiosity over judgment, we can break the cycle and rebuild trust through empathy and open communication.

We are challenging the way couples therapy is done traditionally. Read more to understand how an intensive could be a jump start to the next phase in your relationship!