Dating: Opposed to couples therapy?
I want to start off saying I fully support seeking therapy. I recommend it, even. However, if have just met someone and we are not exclusively dating, couples therapy should not be required. It would be odd and inappropriate. What sort of issues have you uncovered in a three minute, yet to be determined relationship?
I told my friend Vincent that his new love interest may be a little high strung because she wants them to go see her pastor for counseling. Couples counseling. Again, not opposed to seeking therapy, but couples therapy when you’re not a couple? RED FLAG. They only met a few months ago and she has issues with how he communicates already. I guess she is the type to be proactive?
What do you think? Has anyone ever asked you to go to therapy with them? If you had a new relationship and hit rough patch already, would you be willing to work things out with a professional?
Would it bother you if the person you were dating had a therapist or life coach?
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
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219 comments Add your comment
Jake-SPJTWB
December 20th, 2012
12:25 pm
Swiss, you a fool man!!
T!TTIES!
Bluzgirl
December 20th, 2012
12:26 pm
swiss – who knows what will happen! Now, I’m thinking about shaving just in case! LOL
i'm swiss
December 20th, 2012
12:28 pm
“Anybody know how to get glitter (lots of glitter) off pant legs? Been decorating for the past 2 hours, and I’m a walking glitter box.”
Leggs — Stop it. Everybody in here already knows that glitter rubbed off of the skrippa’s bootay during the lap dance…
T!TTIES!
i'm swiss
December 20th, 2012
12:29 pm
See, it’s fun, right, Jake?
T!TTIES!
Jake-SPJTWB
December 20th, 2012
12:30 pm
Leggs…get some masking/clear tape, roll inside out and pat, pat, pat or go buy a lint roller.
Bluzgirl
December 20th, 2012
12:31 pm
Now, I gotta try it…
T!TTIES! LOL
Exiled!
December 20th, 2012
12:31 pm
I’m on Windward pkwy? Where u at Swiss?
@Dushawn…so is Red one of you’ll three play mates?
disco
December 20th, 2012
12:32 pm
bluz – I thought so too. that glitter ain’t no joke. lol. when a friend of mine got married and was prepping for her honeymoon she proclaimed that she was planning on wearing nothing but glitter and a headband.
Jake-SPJTWB
December 20th, 2012
12:34 pm
I forgot something…Leggs…get some masking/clear tape, roll inside out and pat, pat, pat or go buy a lint roller.
T!TTIES!
i'm swiss
December 20th, 2012
12:34 pm
Me.lo — Haynes Bridge, near Old Alabama.
i'm swiss
December 20th, 2012
12:34 pm
Oh, and T!TTIES!
Leggs
December 20th, 2012
12:38 pm
DuShawn ~ I can read you and can tell, it ain’t over! When a woman says out loud, Du has hoes, I’ll call her….it ain’t over (lol). Glad you didn’t go there!!!
disco ~ I’m advocate for venting. I don’t internalize…it’s not healthy. Keeping things in will give you cataracts of the soul. Ok, I made that up, but I liked the way it rolled in my mind.
Jake ~
I’ve been using the company’s mailing labels.
now swiss, I ain’t opposed to a lap dance!
Exiled!
December 20th, 2012
12:39 pm
@Swiss…,I gotta be home by 4:00,change and roll my pants to my knees and scrub the kitchen.
I would have swung by.
Next time man….I gotta pick my daughter up…I wld have luved to swing by.
Wl def do it nxt time.
Leggs
December 20th, 2012
12:40 pm
disco ~ if I saw a man walk into the office face full of glitter, that would be one laugh I wouldn’t even try to stifle.
DuShawn
December 20th, 2012
12:49 pm
Ex- Red is a family friend. Gangsta chick, she and wifey been friends over 15 years. She used to dance at Cocos at the crib (fine as a mugg). She’s a real hustler. I dig her a lot. That’s my potnah. When Wifey was goin in about sweetheart, I looked at her like dayum..you supposed to be helping me. She was like “Buddy, you looking nervous, that’ not like you.”
Exiled!
December 20th, 2012
12:53 pm
Ok
See uall in a bit.
Single and Happy
December 20th, 2012
12:55 pm
Leggs, try some scotch tape.
So disco, this is your therapy
Leggs
December 20th, 2012
12:56 pm
Single ~ scotch tape too small. These big company mailing labels are doing a decent job. Tks!
Single and Happy
December 20th, 2012
12:59 pm
that’s good leggs, I saw jake had already posted that.
MsAtl
December 20th, 2012
1:27 pm
Single- This can be a sort of therapy sometimes. No offense to any therapists on the blog, but here recently, I don’t think much of formal therapy. You can save your money & bounce it off friends or vent. I have seen therapists who are b@tsh!t crazy.
i'm swiss
December 20th, 2012
1:55 pm
Um, t!tties….?
Into the Light
December 20th, 2012
1:59 pm
Afternoon, all!
Popping in to say hello and Merry Christmas.
Oh, and T!TTIES!!!
i'm swiss
December 20th, 2012
2:07 pm
Merry Christmas to you, too, ITL. And Happy T!TTIES!
Into the Light
December 20th, 2012
2:16 pm
Aw, thanks, Swissykins.
Is SuisseMochette Noelle ready for her big debut?
i'm swiss
December 20th, 2012
2:17 pm
ITL — Yep, the little diva’s room is all ready & waiting for her.
Into the Light
December 20th, 2012
2:18 pm
Dang, Gina…it’s slower than the service at a French restaurant in here today…. I’ll check back later.
Into the Light
December 20th, 2012
2:19 pm
@Swiss: Let me guess….pink, pink, and more pink.
SuissMochette will be a girly-girl….I can tell.
i'm swiss
December 20th, 2012
2:21 pm
ITL — But of course! Hit me up on FB if you want to see some pics. Daddy did a darn good job, if I do say so myself…
Bluzgirl
December 20th, 2012
2:21 pm
Hi ITL!!!! Good to see you on here. Miss you!!!
Bluzgirl
December 20th, 2012
2:22 pm
Playing hard to get…
http://bodyodd.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/20/16024894-playing-hard-to-get-actually-works-study-confirms?lite=
SlimNu: Life always happens
December 20th, 2012
2:53 pm
Leggs – Will a lint roller not get it off? (a good one, not one of those flimsy cheap ones)
i'm swiss
December 20th, 2012
2:55 pm
“But if you’re a man looking for a casual fling, it pays to be impossible to get”
Bluz — That would explain why a wedding ring is a puddy magnet.
i'm swiss
December 20th, 2012
2:56 pm
Damn, Slim, you’re a little late, aren’t you?
T!TTIES!
DuShawn
December 20th, 2012
2:56 pm
I go out of town on a one day business trip Friday and won’t step back in the office till 2013!
DuShawn
December 20th, 2012
2:58 pm
Wifey trying to put a ankle braclet on me. Talking bout we all could go. We could take the kids and make it a family outing….lol
Sassy Me...I feel like bustin loose!! ;-)
December 20th, 2012
3:07 pm
Talking bout we all could go. We could take the kids and make it a family outing….
She knows her man, that’s all
I’m sooo about to pull a Huodini and get ghost…this weather has me feeling friendly…don’t judge me
Single and Happy
December 20th, 2012
3:08 pm
MsATL, when I need “therapy” I call my (Disco) friends, cause I know they’ll listen for so long then tell me to get over that isht and move on
SlimNu: Life always happens
December 20th, 2012
3:10 pm
swiss – I didn’t think any time was too late for T!TTIES!
DuShawn
December 20th, 2012
3:10 pm
When i leave here, Im about to get some 1738, firewood and egg nog, make some home made soup, with the ham hocks, like Big Mama taught me, ( with blueberry muffins) throw on the KEM christmas cd and slap wifey on that big, beautiful, peanut butter color a$$ every time she walk pass me. Happy Holidays .
i'm swiss
December 20th, 2012
3:12 pm
Slim — Very true. Any time is the right time for…
T!TTIES!!!!
Bluzgirl
December 20th, 2012
3:12 pm
Man…I am in a mood today! Partly the weather and partly because there wasn’t even a note in our last pay check for the year saying thank you for a job well done. I hope I can get in a better mood as soon as I walk out the door here…
Sassy Me...I feel like bustin loose!! ;-)
December 20th, 2012
3:13 pm
Happy Holidays.
Happy Holidays for you indeed Du. Well I’m out and I’d like to wish the blog a Happy Holiday season and Swiss I hope your little princess makes her debut soon and congratulations!!
Sassy Me...I feel like bustin loose!! ;-)
December 20th, 2012
3:14 pm
Oh and TITT!ES!!!!!
i'm swiss
December 20th, 2012
3:15 pm
Bluz — Yeah, it is kind of a gloomy day out there. But one thing I’ve learned over the years — if there’s one thing than can brighten my mood every time, it’s…
T!TTIES!!!
i'm swiss
December 20th, 2012
3:16 pm
Thanks, Sassy! Merry Christmas as Titillating T!TTIES to you & yours!
Exiled!
December 20th, 2012
3:17 pm
Talk people!
Bluzgirl
December 20th, 2012
3:17 pm
For me, it would be more like D!CKIES!!!
SlimNu: Life always happens
December 20th, 2012
3:18 pm
BLuz – You on that again…didn’t you get my announcement from this morning. Seems like you’re trying to find things to feel down about. Snap out of it girl….Matter of fact, take your longest arm, reach it around your back and pat until you feel better. Then move on…
i'm swiss
December 20th, 2012
3:19 pm
Bluz — Just a hunch, but if it could be accurately described as a “dickie” I doubt it could do much for you. IJS…
Leggs
December 20th, 2012
3:20 pm
Holiday Luncheon and cleanup is OVER.
DuShawn ~ that KEM CD is SMOOTH! One of the best Christmas CDs out there.
Merry Christmas, ITL!
Bluz ~ if you’re going after the Dickies, make sure it’s not two different ones in the same night (lol).