Seeking ethically non-monogamous, polyamorous, and open relationship therapy in Florida?
Are you in an open marriage and needing help with reducing anger and communication?
Or, are you wanting to open your marriage and needing professional guidance with big feelings?
Does it feel like you and your spouse get into the same arguments over and over related to polyamory?
Do you want your spouse to change anger issues, tension, and be a better communicator?
Are you having relationship issues like jealousy from your open relationships and miscommunications that cause problems?
Do you have people pleasing parts of you that want to make everyone happy, but feel exhausted at the end of the day from it all?
Also, do you feel betrayed, hurt, and jealous, but you want to make non-monogamy work for you and your partner?
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling in Florida can help with a healthy, happy, and positive ethically non-monogamous and polyamorous relationship.
Let’s talk about open marriages and healthy communication.
Being in an open relationship and open marriage can be healthy and positive. However, starting to open your marriage can lead to a host of challenging emotions. Jealousy, for one, can be debilitating and cause anxiety. As well, anger and aggressive communication can lead to emotional distance and emotional pain. Feeling attracted to multiple people can lead to insecurity in your primary romantic partner.
Learning to get to know other people’s bodies can be thrilling and adventurous. However, there can be stress and anxiety because of fears of rejection. There can be many ways poly-friendly and open marriage therapy in Florida can help your relationship thrive.
The team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Florida are poly-friendly and poly-informed.
It gets challenging when relationships feel toxic, aggressive, or have too many negative emotions. Underneath anger is often hurt, confusion, and loss, which Florida marriage counseling can help process. Constant arguments can lead to a feeling of sadness and hurt in your marriage. At times, healthy coping skills are necessary to use to deal with emotions on personal level. With being in love come very intense, painful emotions too.
To start, book your phone consult below for ethically non-monogamous, polyamorous and open relationship therapy in Florida.
Being in an open marriage or ethical non-monogamous relationship can bring up anger, anxiety, hurt, fear, and more.
Rather than being stuck in these intense emotions, you can learn to gain perspective from ethical non-monogamous therapy in Florida. So, the team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Florida can support healthy communication skills.
If your partner has been getting mad or becoming aggressive in front of your family or friends, you may feel humiliated or embarrassed.
Yelling, name calling, criticism, or feeling belittled can lead to deep issues in your relationship’s foundation. Learning to talk about any issue in a calm, loving way can help you and your multiple romantic partners feel emotionally safe.
Healthy communication for repairing trust issues in an ethically non-monogamous relationship
In your marriage, you may feel uncomfortable emotionally and need help rebuilding trust with your partners. Talking about betrayal and trust issues can be triggering for fears of abandonment, rejection, and insecurity. If there had been a break in trust, you can have a safe place in couples counseling to talk about this trauma and loss.
Any sort of lying or dishonesty can cause trust issues and emotional pain. Fears of commitment and fears of abandonment can come up when trust is violated.
Learning to rebuild trust takes the help of a therapist who understands fear, anxiety, and trauma. From talking with a marriage therapist in Florida about trust, you and your romantic partners can rebuild meaning and a future together.
To start, book your phone consult below for ethically non-monogamous, polyamorous and open relationship therapy in Florida.
Do you and your partners get into arguments about past trauma and hurt?
Betrayal trauma and trust issues from years into the past can have lingering impacts. If you or your spouse get into yelling matches or slam doors when angry, Wisdom Within Counseling in Florida can help.
Intense anger can lead to emotional ruptures that break relationship stability. Building a steady, solid, and loving relationship takes time. But, each anger episode or aggressive style of communication can take away from the security you wan to build. So, learning to talk calmly is an essenital skill.
Is it normal to be in monogamous relationship and then want to be in an open marriage or polyamorous?
Yes, you can be monogamous for decades and now be questioning if you want to open your marriage. It is very common for people to be in monogamous relationships to get to a point where they are curious about opening their marriage.
It is okay to have been in monogamous relationships for many years and then want to open your marriage.
Each polyamorous relationship can bring out different needs. Talking about what you and your partner want to get out of your open marriage is a big part of Florida marriage therapy. You may want more diverse sexual experiences and your primary romantic partner may want companionship and friendship in another partner.
Sexual, romantic, and companionship needs may change over time too. Being seen as a sexual being and exploring your sexuality can be a part of having multiple partners. Other times, simply hanging out, eating food, and playing a board game can be positive, fulfilling, and healing for polyamorous couples too.
The team of marriage therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you figure out what kind of fun you are looking for in opening your marriage.
Why do some people want to explore non-monogamous and polyamorous relationships?
Monogamy is not for everyone and therapy can help you feel confident about your polyamorous relationship. Some people want an open marriage for better, more diverse sexual experiences. Having different sexual experiences can be healing, liberating, and positive when consensual. For instance, some women want to be with another woman sexually. Opening your marriage can provide sexual experiences and sexual pleasure with different genders and people.
Sexual diversity needs can be a reason people start opening their marriage
A female may want commitment and a long term relationship, but struggle sexually to orgasm with her primary partner. Her partner may not have an interest in sexual pleasure as much, but enjoy being together and want to stay together.
From talking in couples therapy, she and her primary partner may work out boundaries that allow for an open marriage for sexually expressive reasons. Polyamory can allow her to have a sexual partner while also feeling and growing commitment with her primary partner.
To start, book your phone consult below for ethically non-monogamous, polyamorous and open relationship therapy in Florida.
What can an open marriage or polyamory look like for couples?
Let’s talk about a poly quad and couples dating other couples.
Some couples want to be in a poly quad, where as a couple, they date another couple. Some couples fall in love with one another and make their poly quad exclusive with one another only.
On the other hand, some couples who date other couples are more casual and partake with a variety of couples not exclusively. Couples therapy in Florida can be a safe place to talk about boundaries, needs, sexual pleasure, and consent.
In all open relationship cases, Florida couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can be a safe place to talk about safe sex practices and sexual protection.
Sometimes, one person in a couple wants to go on dates with other people individually outside the couple, without their primary partner.
Can jealousy and anger come up when one person in a couple unit goes out on a date?
Absolutely, when one person in a couple goes out on dates individually with another person with out their primary partner, jealousy can arise. If you are the partner who is at home, you may feel insecure. You might wonder if you are an adequate sexual partner due to jealousy and fear.
Fears may arise like questioning your romantic relationship and feeling unsure in your relationship. If you are the partner at home, you may have fears of being unlovable or replaced when their romantic partner is out dating other people.
Working through these feelings can be parts of individual therapy sessions and couples therapy sessions. Furthermore, if you are hanging out at home, you may feel anxious and jealous about what your partner is doing sexually out dating.
To start, book your phone consult below for ethically non-monogamous, polyamorous and open relationship therapy in Florida.
Fears, anxiety, and jealousy you never knew you had may come up when in an open marriage.
When your partner is out on a date with someone else, you may be filled with jealousy, anxiety, and even anger. When your partner comes home from their date, you find arguments and toxic fights start.
There are parts of you that lash out in anger, yell, and you want to communicate better overall. With intense love comes intense hurt and anger.
Feeling angry and jealous can get in the way of having a healthy, successful, and satisfying open marriage.
A close, romantic partner may have anger issues that really trigger your anger. Before you realize it, you and both yelling, upset, and in distress to a point that snowballs. After fights, you feel hurt, hopeless, and sad. The team of marriage therapists in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling help couples in open marriages share feelings in healthy ways. Learning to talk about hurt, betrayal, and loss gently can improve your marriage.
Does yelling help me build a healthy, loving open relationship or ethical non-monogamous?
No, yelling doesn’t help. Also, yelling and intense anger are signs we need to do better next time and learn healthy communication skills. To note, if one of your romantic partners has hurt your feelings, you may feel justified in yelling or being angry.
It is okay to feel angry, but yelling when angry is a barrier to building intimacy and connection.
Likewise, learning to share emotions underlying anger in polyamorous and ethical non-monogamous therapy in Florida scan be positive.
Commonly, anger is just a secondary emotion, with hurt, loss, sadness and betrayal underneath. As well, yelling and anger never help to build emotional security in your relationships.
Often, when yelling, couples say the most hurtful things that they regret later. Learning to reduce anger and be an effective communicator will help you build positive, meaningful bonds with your spouse and other romantic partners.
How can ethically non-monogamous therapy and polyamory friendly counseling in Florida help?
Instead of being aggressive, yelling, or sleeping apart, you can have communication tools to start talking it through. With the help of your polyamory affirming marriage therapist, you and your partner can learn to self-regulate and breathe through the most intense feelings.
Overall, feelings of guilt, betrayal, shame, and anxiety all go together hand in hand. Polyamory friendly and ethically non-monogamous couples counseling in Orlando, Florida can help you and your partner talk calmly.
To start, book your phone consult below for ethically non-monogamous, polyamorous and open relationship therapy in Florida.
The team of marriage and family therapists in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you build a respectful, loyal, honest, meaningful, and passionate open marriage.
You get a safe place to talk about your emotional needs in each relationship you have. For instance, you may have one partner who expresses gratitude and affection for you. But, you want your primary partner to share their appreciation for you too. This is where ethically non-monogamous relationship therapy comes in.
Then, you may have another romantic partner who you see less frequently, but bring humor. One of your romantic partners may help you feel safe in a way other partners do not.
Polyamory friendly marriage therapy in Florida can help you feel safe with all your partners.
Talking about emotional expression, emotional security, and emotional validations are skills from couples counseling. If one partner needs help understanding what you need to feel safe, polyamory friendly marriage therapy can be a great place to express yourself.
Communicating your needs and your goals for your relationships are great things to do in open marriage couples counseling. Talking about what you need to feel safe emotionally opening up can be a part of polyamory friendly couples therapy in Orlando, Florida.
Ethically non-monogamous couples therapy and polyamory friendly marriage counseling can help you make big decisions calmly and clearly
Perhaps, you want to get engaged, have a child, take on a new responsibility at work, or buy a second home with one of your romantic partners.
Moving to a new place, buying a home, or picking where your young adult children goto college can be triggering topics that lead to anger and anxiety. Being able to talk about important conversations calmly and effectively is an essential skill.
Maybe, you have some big decision in the pas that didn’t go so well that keep coming up. Or, you have big decisions to make that cause you tension and anxiety. Maybe, you want to go on vacation with another couple and the financial part of the trip is causing you anxiety.
Any big decisions can bog down your romantic pleasure and passion.
Big decisions with your relationships and your partners can be great topics to bring to marriage counseling. Polyamory friendly couples therapy in Florida can be a safe place to sort it all out and talk about your feelings.
To start, book your phone consult below for ethically non-monogamous, polyamorous and open relationship therapy in Florida.
Why Start In Polyamory Therapy In Florida?
Wether you are already in a new, budding open relationship, or have been talking with your partner about opening your marriage, Wisdom Within Counseling can help.
After talking with other couples therapists, you’ve realized you want a specialist in polyamory and open marriages. Not all therapists specialize in ethically non-monogamous relationships and polyamory.
When you are searching for Florida polyamorous and open relationship therapy, you want to work with a specialist.
Many times, a traditional relationship therapist will not be educated in alternative styles of relationships. Furthermore, if you goto a more general or traditional relationship therapist, they may unintentionally lead you to feel shame or guilt. Our society focuses on a monogamous culture.
Polyamorous and open relationship therapy can help you gain confidence about desiring an open marriage and polyamorous lifestyle
So, it is very common for uneducated therapists to blame a poly lifestyle and open marriage for the distress you are experiencing. You are not to blame for wanting multiple romantic partners and to partake in polyamory.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we understand any type of relationship, monogamous or polyamorous can lead to intense emotions, and a polyamorous lifestyle is not to blame. It is normal for many people to experience anxiety, jealousy, and anger even within a monogamous relationship.
To start, book your phone consult below for ethically non-monogamous, polyamorous and open relationship therapy in Florida.
Wisdom Within Counseling in Florida teaches you and your partner positive, holistic coping tools for dealing with intense feelings.
For instance, positive coping tools can help you manage jealously, anger, and hurt feelings in calm ways. Instead of drinking alcohol in excess, numbing out, going to the bar, working too much, withdrawing emotionally, or having emotionless sex, you can cope in a healthy way.
Learning to take care of yourself can help you cope with tension in your multiple relationships. Many times, under stress or when feeling angry, it is common for people to lash out in anger or numb out emotionally. Making healthy, positive choices are essential on a personal level for having healthy, happy polyamorous relationships.
From couples therapy, you can learn to regulate and calm yourself down in times of high emotion. Instead of taking anger out on your partner, you can deal with conflict in a healthy way. At Wisdom Within Counseling, polyamorous and open relationship therapy can support outlets and releasing anger and jealousy in positive ways.
Holistic, mind-body therapies support a calm nervous system and self-confidence.
For instance, when you feel intense, anger, or even anxiety, you can utilize an emotional soothing technique you learn in couples therapy. As well, listening to music, doing art, painting, or dancing in the mirror promotes mind-body connection. Additionally, holistic, positive coping strategies can calm stress and trauma responses.
Learning to cope with big, intense feelings in healthy ways are parts of therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling in Florida.
What is another reason to work with a polyamorous and open relationship therapy specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling?
It is very common for a more general therapist to blame your polyamorous lifestyle or open marriage for the difficult emotions you are facing.
Working with a specialist who is educated in polyamory and open relationships can help you navigate the various feelings you feel. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can openly talk about multiple partners without feeling judged or shamed. Rather, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling specialize in polyamorous and open relationship therapy Florida.
To start, book your phone consult below for ethically non-monogamous, polyamorous and open relationship therapy in Florida.
We are LGBTQIA+, queer, and polyamory affirming at Wisdom Within Counseling.
A non-affirming, traditional therapist may have grown up in a strict, religious background.
As a result of a strict, religious background, a traditional therapist may not be affirming to you having an open marriage.
They may try to convince you to be monogamous rather than support and affirm multiple romantic partners and consensual and ethical non-monogamy.
Certain religious biases from your therapist’s upbringing can negatively impact their ability to help you navigate your open marriage and polyamorous lifestyle. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Florida, you can trust our team of therapists who are poly-affirming.
Open relationship and ethical non-monogamous therapists in Florida support thoughtful boundaries
Boundaries and consent in a polyamorous relationship are essential for multiple partners. When in an open marriage or polyamorous relationship, it’s important to understand your boundaries and express them clearly. Each person can have boundaries about sex and emotional limits.
Boundaries help you and your partners feel safe in relation to your sexual interactions and relationships with your partner’s partners.
For instance, a sexual boundary for one person may be different than another person’s. You may want to know about the sexual activities your primary partner partakes in.
However, your primary partner may not desire to know about your sexual experiences with others. Another boundary for you may be either know your partner’s partners or not wanting to know them. At times, it can be easier logistically to know about and get to know your partner’s partners. However, sometimes, anger, jealousy, and emotional pain can arise when your partner’s partners are all socializing with you.
Sometimes, couples will spend time with all the romantic partners at home all socializing together. Other times, couples in an open marriage keep each person’s partners separate from the home space. Jealousy can arise, which is where working with the team of couples therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling can help.
How can I make my open marriage positive and successful?
One important thing couples therapy for your open marriage can do is provide time set aside for your primary relationship. To note, having time set aside for you and your primary partner each week in couples counseling can prioritize your love for one another.
Commonly, couples run into issues with new relationship energy. New relationship energy is the rush you feel at the beginning of a new relationship. Meeting a new romantic partner can be fun, exciting, thrilling, and make you very happy.
And, new relationship energy can lead to feelings of intense joy, excitement, and passion that dies off after a certain period of time in all relationships.
To start, book your phone consult below for ethically non-monogamous, polyamorous and open relationship therapy in Florida.
More about new relationship energy in polyamory and prioritizing your primary partner in your open marriage
New relationship energy can be very positive, but it can also be distracting. Some couples run into issues with new relationship energy as a relationship with a new person can seem better than one with a primary partner.
A new partner can take time away from you and your primary partner. If your primary partner is also going out on a date with someone else that same night as you, this may not be an issue. And, in severe cases, spending time with a new partner can even become addicting. For your primary partner, it may feel like all your free time goes to your new romantic partner leading to jealousy.
A primary partner may feel abandoned, or neglected without set aside time weekly together.
If your primary partner feels neglected because you are spending quite a bit of time with a new romantic partner, this can lead to sadness and hurt. On that note, working with your primary partner in couples counseling can be time set aside for you both. Planning a date night that is set aside and non-negotiable for you and your primary partner can be very positive.
Also, set aside time together can help reduce feelings of neglect or feelings of unimportance in your primary partner.
As well, having time and space to talk together can help reduce resentment that comes from unresolved issues piling up. With time together set aside for a date night, you can both reply on at least one day a week together for quality time. Get a babysitter if you have children, so you can have fun together.
Doing fun things together and things you enjoy can bring back a sense of connection and playfulness.
Making time for you and your primary partner through weekly marriage counseling sessions can be very positive for bettering your relationship. In Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling, polyamorous and open relationship therapy can help you improve communication, reduce anger, and create meaningful connection.
Where does Wisdom Within Counseling help distant couples in Florida?
Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Melbourne, Orlando, Homestead, Anna Maria Island, Sarasota, Naples, Kissimmee, Cedar Key, DeFuniak Springs, Captiva, Fernandina Beach, Florida City, Fort Myers, and Destin, Florida.
Wisdom Within Counseling offers video marriage therapy helping couples bond, build trust, and long-lasting love.
