ARTICLES
Explore Ancestrina’s articles on relationships and therapy. These texts take up concrete questions and open a path to deeper conversations.
You do not have to pretend to share a commitment to rebuilding. Clarify each person’s goals and the support available when one or both partners are unsure whether to continue.
Read article →Ancestrina’s online couples process begins with an individual interview with each partner, followed by six joint sessions with the same therapist. The aim is clarity, without a promised outcome.
Read article →Research finds average improvements with various couples interventions. Learn what those results measure, their limits, and how to consider whether a process fits your goals.
Read article →You do not have to wait until a relationship is close to ending to seek support. Consider what you cannot address together, each person’s goals, and the work you want help with.
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Intimacy may involve conversation, touch, play, admiration, and sex. Explore the forms of connection you choose without treating one as a substitute for all the others.
Read article →Different sex drives do not make either partner the problem. Explore consent, what each person wants, and the choices that remain when the difference continues.
Read article →Not feeling desired can hurt without proving a lack of love or defining your worth. Explore what you observe, what you infer, and how to discuss desire without demanding it.
Read article →An absence of sex does not have one meaning for every couple. Explore consent, what each partner misses, and the difference between relational questions and health concerns.
Read article →A calm, well-organized home can still leave you missing connection as a couple. Explore what is absent, what each person values, and whether both want to reconnect.
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By Víctor Silva and Marcela Gómez You are having dinner when you remember a detail. You mentally review a date. One statement does not fit with what your partner told you last week. Or…
Read article →By Víctor Silva and Marcela Gómez “If you forgave me, why do you not want to stay with me?” The question treats two different things as if they were a single commitment. Forgiving infidelity…
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By Víctor Silva and Marcela Gómez “But we had already agreed on this.” Your partner replies that they do not remember it that way, that they only said they would try, or that they…
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