Written By Ashley Gray, LCSW, MFTC The fight starts and you feel the dread well up within you. You want to stay and discuss what is important, but you know how this often goes. Your partner starts making their point and you start to feel bad, you feel like they're making everything your fault and you're not feeling heard. You start to feel overwhelmed in your mind and body and you just want to lash out or run away because you don't trust that you'll be heard. In the best case

Written By Ashley Gray, LCSW, MFTC Ooof! The question alone feels like a gut punch! You've tried to push the thought away, tried to explain it away, but still settles in you like a pit in your stomach. It is deeply painful to consider, but you know you have to face it. You can't ignore it and you're not entirely sure what the thought means. Are you being anxious? Are you blowing things out of porportion? Are they on their way out of the relationship? What are you missing? It

Written by Ashley Gray, LCSW, MFTC It may seem obvious that life can't be perfect, so your relationships can't be perfect either....