Relationship Help – Dealing With Financial and Social Pressures – or how to get the relationship help you need to overcome the financial and social pressures you may be feeling.

Most couples experience financial difficulties, whether short or long term. Unfortunately with this situation there may be a clash of ideals, with one partner wishing to ‘live now, pay later’, while the other prefers to live always within their means without borrowing money. Most troubled relationships usually have an element of financial or social pressures that they are struggling to deal with.

Emotional and physical closeness

There is a particular form of closeness, that should be part of any healthy relationship, which is physical without being love-contact. This is characterized by the way that couples who are quite intimate tend to groom each other, for instance by straightening each other’s clothing. It is a pleasant form of closeness, and shows care for each other, although it can also have an implication of possessiveness, which may not be totally welcome to one of the two.

This kind of closeness often goes together with emotional closeness, but again some people may feel that the physical closeness is not enough and they need some extra sharing of feelings as well. It is often the man who is less comfortable with emotional closeness, and the woman who wants to be closer. As with the love-contact emotional problem, to maintain a healthy relationship, an agreement to be emotionally close at planned, but limited, times in the day may begin to help the problem.

Operational closeness