couples therapy

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noun

a counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who form a conjugal unit.

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How to use couples therapy in a sentence

Designed as an alternative to real-life couples therapy, Relish is meant to help identify and solve problems in your relationship.
It’s Complicated: Love and Sex in 2021|Daniel Malloy|February 14, 2021|Ozy
However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.
Freaking Out About Age Gaps in Gay Relationships Is Homophobic|Samantha Allen|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone|Samantha Levine|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In other words, Florida clerks were no longer allowed to turn gay couples away.
The Back Alley, Low Blow-Ridden Fight to Stop Gay Marriage in Florida Is Finally Over|Jay Michaelson|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Dance instructors run a lucrative trade offering private lessons to couples before their wedding receptions, typically the tango.
Iran’s Becoming a Footloose Nation as Dance Lessons Spread|IranWire|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
If couples can seem smug and self-enclosed, the married single represents an even more irritating manifestation of that.
Why Singles Should Say ‘I Don’t’ to The Self-Marriage Movement|Tim Teeman|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Cabs containing couples rolled by, disappeared towards north and south, disappeared into the darkness.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
The same fact is illustrated in the countenances of aged couples, especially in country places.
Notes and Queries, Number 177, March 19, 1853|Various
When we visited the place there were only a pair of these fortunate beings, and their number rarely exceeds three couples.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer
The new books wandered in a year after the rest of the world had forgotten them, and rarely in couples.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Let one receive the guests, another arrange the sets, a third introduce couples, and a fourth pair off the talkers.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness|Florence Hartley