Relationship Re:birth
Relationship survival with a new child

For most couples, becoming parents is one of the biggest challenges they will ever face.

To survive and grow as a couple with kids you need to achieve three things:

• To be able to negotiate with each other – so that you can get both your needs met.
  Many couples experience more conflict than ever after they have children and, for many, this can feel very disturbing. Learning how to assert your needs and resolve difference is essential to the long-term survival of your relationship.
  
• To problem-solve and work as a team.
  Parenthood throws up new challenges and problems on a daily (sometimes hourly!) basis. With growing kids, nothing stays constant and couples have to work harder than ever to ensure that their management strategies are working. Constant review and evaluation is essential to ensure that the relationships within the family are keeping pace with the change.
  
• To remain connected – even through the hardest of times.
  Kids have the affect of drawing a couple’s attention away from the relationship. Without realising it, couples can lose their connection to each other – and so plant the seeds for relationship breakdown. To sustain and develop your relationship, it’s really important to stay connected – as friends, as lovers and as parents.
  

This workshop is an opportunity to talk about the experience of becoming a parent & to explore some of the issues that all couples face when they have kids.