{"id":361989,"date":"2025-12-21T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/361989\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:00:11","slug":"dear-mary-my-wife-started-therapy-and-wants-more-time-for-herself-but-i-feel-were-not-a-team-now-and-the-kids-are-losing-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/361989\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Mary: My wife started therapy and wants more time for herself but I feel we\u2019re not a team now and the kids are losing out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;My wife began counselling at the beginning of the year as she felt she needed better coping skills to deal with our young children.&quot; Image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6cf867b8-e07c-4d0f-9d8e-b63105a577b0.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8220;My wife began counselling at the beginning of the year as she felt she needed better coping skills to deal with our young children.&#8221; Image: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Question: My wife began counselling at the beginning of the year as she felt she needed better coping skills to deal with our young children, one of whom has special needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I supported her in this as I could see she was struggling. But now, almost a year later, I feel our family life was better before she began weekly therapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;My wife began counselling at the beginning of the year as she felt she needed better coping skills&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,178503,259,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-361989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-life-magazine","10":"tag-mental-health","11":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}