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Most couples prepare for a baby the way you'd prepare for a hurricane you're excited about. You buy the car seat. You paint the nursery. You read the books about sleep schedules and feeding and which swaddle is allegedly magic. What almost no one prepares for — and what I see every week in my couples therapy practice in Charlotte — is what happens to the *relationship* once the baby is home. Here is the part nobody tells you at the shower: within three years of a baby's arriv

If you've ever Googled "couples therapy," you've probably noticed there are dozens of approaches out there. Emotionally Focused Therapy, Imago, narrative therapy, generic "talk therapy" — the list goes on. So when I tell someone I use the Gottman Method, the natural question is: what makes it different? The short answer is research. A lot of it. The Gottman Method was developed by Drs. John and Julie Gottman over more than 40 years of studying real couples. Not just in a ther