I always make it a point that the target of affair
solution Is happiness. Affair counselling should not be considered as a therapy
for anger or trauma or sex problems for couple. This is because the affair
problem is not simple. It involves both the husband and wife and family
relations. The affair brings mixed problems of all these and will bring massive
changes in their lives.
After innumerable sessions, I have come to realization
that the target of an affair problem should be either the individual happiness or
couple happiness. Otherwise, this problem cannot be solved.
Therefore, I set priority on the happiness of
the client which may seem to be a little bit different from other counseling
session. There has been suffering from spousal affair but when this is settled
and if the couple’s happiness is present, then the couple should seek the
happiness together as a couple.
On the other hand, even after such problems are
solved and the couple is united, if they don’t seem to be happy together as a
couple, then the following session will focus on individual happiness of each
one so that the client will be able to make a right decision for his/her own
future.
For other cases, I have seen some clients who
have dedicated deeply their lives to their spouses and to their family with
such humility. It is important the couple should be happy together and the
husband and wife need to be equally happy with mutual respect. Affair problem
is solved, anger management therapy is done, all the other problems are all
solved too. But if the client is not happy, how can the spouse and the family
be happy? In this case, it is likely that the affair problem can occur again at
any time.
The most important thing for the clients is to
find their own happiness. This does not mean that everything has gone back to
normal just like before and nothing has changed. Then it will bring back the past
habits and in the end bring up the same problem again. We should never forget
that the target of an affair solution is a client’s happiness.
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