Disrupting the Underfunctioning/Overfunctioning Dynamic
Reimagining Love
Couples Therapy
If i've spent a lot of time describing my partner as lazy or stubborn, then starting to practise the idea that this is a dynamic can start to shift. It's important also for the couple's therapis to really be languasging it that way. These roles are entwined, and it becomes a dance. The more i do this, the more you do this. What this means is that if either one of them changes their dance moves, the dance can't continue in the same way. And so how would a couples therapists start to create change? Does the therapist help the under functioning partner step up and try harder? Or does the couple's therapist help the over functioning partner
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