Couples Therapy vs. Discernment Counseling: How to Know If You Should Fix Your Relationship or End It (opens in new tab)

There is a certain kind of couple that gets this wrong. Not the volatile ones. Not the already-separated ones. The articulate ones. They’ve talked about the relationship—at length. They’ve tried to be fair. They’ve tried to understand each other. They have, in a word, been reasonable. And that’s precisely the problem. Because what they are actually dealing with is not a communication breakdown. It’s a divergence in commitment that hasn’t been named yet.