The cross : In the era of communication, there is an injunction to transparency in the couple. Can you tell everything to your spouse? Jacques Arenes : There is a gap between what we read or see in the media and reality. What I hear in my cabinet is rather the difficulty in saying a […]
“A safe place to discuss difficult subjects” Lisa (1), 39 years old “After twenty-two years of marriage, my husband and I needed to consult a marriage counselor in order to overcome a moment of crisis. We had come to a point where we could no longer speak calmly to each other. We were both hurt […]
Save his couple. It is in these terms that Stéphanie (1), 41 years old, mother of two children, speaks of the therapy that she and her husband undertook five years ago. “We were not going through an acute crisis but after the birth of our first child, communication became difficultsays this Parisian. We blamed each […]
The Invitation to Married Life (1), an opus by British author Angela Huth, recounts the daily lives of couples more or less advanced in age, and subtly evokes the gap that has widened over the years in the hearts of some of them. Unless he’s always been there. What predicts the evolution of a couple? […]
The cross :More and more couples are making pilgrimages together. They are 18% on the roads to Compostela, according to a recent survey. How do you explain this need? Sonia Chick : I believe that couples no longer find the time to talk to each other about important things. They are caught up in the […]
Since the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, the couple is, par excellence, the protagonist of the journey. And as anthropologist Jean-Didier Urbain, a tourism specialist, says, the archetype of travel as a couple is of course the honeymoon. A travel “obligated, offered and openly initiatory” which allows you to devote […]
“This experience has brought us a lot closer” Anaelle, 38 years old “I met my partner in Norway during my Erasmus year and since then travel has been part of our life. In 2016, we wanted to push the adventure a little further by leaving for ten months together. I quit my job and took […]
Who says couple decision immediately thinks in large format, with the most engaging questions: living together? To marry ? Have a child? Change region? Essential choices but which only embrace a small part of the vast field of arbitrations on which a couple’s life is built. On a day-to-day basis, you have to decide on […]
The cross : How do couples make the decision to separate? Musa Nabati: In some couples, two adults talk to each other to carry out a work of elaboration of this choice, where thought and reason have their place. For others, it’s a one-sided, impulsive decision made by an inner child. The little girl or […]
Politics is also everyday life. Proof of this is the French passion around elections, especially the presidential one, a passion that runs through married life and can make it quite sporty. → MAINTENANCE. Jean-Claude Kaufmann: “Resemblance does not make it possible to form a couple” Why is it so passionate? Because basically, everything is political, […]