{"id":488523,"date":"2026-02-24T23:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/488523\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T23:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:40:09","slug":"will-a-couples-therapist-take-sides-an-expert-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/488523\/","title":{"rendered":"Will a couples therapist take sides? An expert explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One famous approach is called the <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jmft.12726\" class=\"visited:text-foreground-secondary visited:decoration-stroke-link underline-brand-hover hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gottman method<\/a>, where couples focus on things such as creating \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gottman.com\/blog\/the-sound-relationship-house-build-love-maps\/\" class=\"visited:text-foreground-secondary visited:decoration-stroke-link underline-brand-hover hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">love maps<\/a>\u201d recording what you know about your partner, nurturing fondness, turning toward each other instead of away and solving problems. Famously, the Gottman approach also identifies the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gottman.com\/blog\/the-four-horsemen-recognizing-criticism-contempt-defensiveness-and-stonewalling\/\" class=\"visited:text-foreground-secondary visited:decoration-stroke-link underline-brand-hover hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four horsemen<\/a>\u201d of a relationship apocalypse: criticism, contempt, defensiveness and stonewalling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One famous approach is called the Gottman method, where couples focus on things such as creating \u201clove maps\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-488523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488523","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=488523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}