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Navigating Difficult Marriages

Navigating Difficult Marriages

Feeling lost, overwhelmed, or unsure about your marriage? This therapist-led support group offers a safe space to process emotions, gain clarity, and explore your options with guidance and peer support. Navigate relationship challenges with resilience, practical tools, and a supportive community.

 

Starts 16th July, 2025

6 sessions | Every Wednesday at 8:00 PM IST | 75 minutes

Confidential | Small group, 6-8 people

Group Type: Support Group

Includes 3 Free Peer Calls*

Led by a therapist

Rs. 3,500.00
Rs. 3,500.00
Starts 16th Jul Booked out
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About the Group

This is a safe, supportive space for individuals navigating distressing, confusing, or unfulfilling marital relationships. Whether you feel emotionally isolated, overwhelmed by conflict, or uncertain about the future of your marriage, this therapist-led group helps you process your experience, regain clarity, and explore healthier ways of relating to yourself and your partner.

Who is this group for?

This group is for anyone who:
• Feels stuck, emotionally unheard, or unsupported in their marriage
• Is facing constant conflict, manipulation, or communication breakdowns
• Is uncertain about staying in or leaving the relationship
• Wants a safe space to reflect on their role, needs, and next steps
• Is seeking emotional clarity, community, and professional guidance

This group is inclusive of people of all genders, sexual orientations, and relationship styles.

Glimpse of the regime

Cluster 1: Understanding and Communication

Session 1: Naming the Struggle & Setting Intentions

• Introductions and group agreements
• Exploring what "difficult marriage" means for each person
• Identifying the core emotional and relational challenges
• Setting personal goals for the 6-week journey

Goal: Build safety, trust, and clarity on shared and individual concerns

Session 2: Communication, Conflict & Emotional Expression

• Common patterns in difficult relational dynamics
• Communication blocks, shutdowns, and escalation cycles
• Expressing needs without guilt or fear
• Understanding one's emotional responses in the relationship

Goal: Foster better emotional awareness and assertive communication

Cluster 2: Power and Emotional Resilience

Session 3: Boundaries, Control & Emotional Safety

• Identifying unhealthy patterns: control, gaslighting, avoidance
• Understanding personal boundaries and what threatens them
• Differentiating between discomfort and emotional harm
• Reclaiming agency within or outside the relationship

Goal: Equip participants with tools to assess and maintain emotional safety

Session 4: The Emotional Toll & How to Cope

• Naming grief, guilt, resentment, and loneliness
• Managing stress, overwhelm, and the emotional load
• Cultivating grounding techniques and self-regulation tools
• Normalizing complex emotions like ambivalence or detachment

Goal: Support emotional processing and teach adaptive coping mechanisms

Cluster 3: Boundaries and Decision-making

Session 5: Choices, Clarity & Next Steps

•What’s in your control vs. what’s not
• Exploring the spectrum between staying, transforming, or leaving
• Understanding fear of change, loss, and societal pressure
•Planning safe and intentional boundaries or transitions

Goal: Empower participants to move toward clarity, not rushed decisions

Cluster 4: Moving Forward and Closure

Session 6: Closure, Commitment to Self & Community

• Reflecting on group learnings and individual progress
• Creating a vision for future emotional well-being
• Sharing resources, affirmations, and ongoing support ideas
• Rituals for closure and self-acknowledgment

Goal: Provide emotional closure and anchor the support received in action

Learn from us & from each other

  • Helped me set boundaries and regain my confidence.

    Sreejith

    Self-Empowerment

  • I finally felt heard and understood without judgment.

    Arjun

    Shared Experience

  • This group gave me the clarity I needed to move forward.

    Rahul

    Found Perspective

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✔️ Small group, 6-8 people

✔️ Every meeting led by a world-class facilitator

✔️ Weekly 75-minute online video sessions

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Check In. Participants check-in with each others' feelings and answer the prompt given by the facilitator if any.

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You can book 3 Peer calls for FREE as part of signing up for this group.

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