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Why Your Insurance Company Won't Cover Couples Therapy

     One of the great benefits of recent years of mental health awareness has been the increase in access to mental health treatment via health insurance. As mental health conditions, which nearly 1 in 5 people are currently living with, often occur throughout a person's life, they require periods of treatment with a goal of management rather than cures. This also means having times of significant financial cost unless insurance deems it to be medically necessary and is an expectation of your agreement with them. Mental health parities have allowed therapy to be more obtainable than ever for those struggling with their mental health.       However, not all therapy is treating a medical disorder; it can also be about improving self esteem, exploring sexuality, and improving components of life that are no longer serving you. As this alone tends not to meet the criteria of medical necessity, insurance would not be expected to pay. These types of intricac...
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3 Tips For Dating Your Spouse

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Dating is a funny term, with a variety of meanings, boundaries and expectations depending on who you ask. It’s a status of relationship, and it is also an act-the purposeful creating of intimate romantic connection between two (or more!) people. We have blended that act with the time before engagement or marriage, so we can use some focus on ways to help date years into the relationship. Tip #1-You Still Need To Date Your Spouse! As we’ve blended the act of dating with the early time in a relationship, it can become easy to lose sight of the importance of continuing to have the dates with our long term partner or spouse. As cohabitation, children, aging parents, and other life changes occur, the relationship can unintentionally be placed on the back-burner. Assuming that it will still be there without tending can find couples at a loss when consequences significantly impact their dynamic, both in times of stress, such as child-rearing, and in times of calm, such as gaining an empty ne...
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