Happily Ever After? Tell Your Therapist!

Once a year many organization conduct employee performance reviews. The idea is to help improve performance by comparing the corporate goals to the employee’s sense of progress with management’s assessment of the employee’s progress. It is meant to benefit both but is often stressful and mistrusted. So how would you like to subject your marriage to such a performance review?
The Wall Street Journal reports a growing number of marriage therapists are recommending them. Relationship experts say that couples usually wait too long to go to therapy, and that having regular reviews of their relationship can help them to recognize problems long before they become more deep-seated and difficult or impossible to resolve.
Research has found that these kind of regular reviews improve relationships, with psychology professors concluding the relationship checkup is the equivalent of the six-month dental checkup with a lot of misunderstandings being cleared up when people talk openly.
Chances are you don’t blame your dentist when you get a bad checkup and accordingly therapists caution that these reviews should be a mutual conversation, not a blame-placing session!