You can combine the best of both worlds by using Gottman Methods and the Miracle Question from Solution-Focused Therapy to embrace your relationship strengths, shift conversations toward shared intentions, and encourage your best hopes for 2025. Combining these approaches can help you build a stronger and more resilient marriage for The New Year.
Solution-Focused Therapy and the New Year
The Miracle Question helps you keep an optimistic and future-focused mindset for your marriage. Even if there were any negative patterns in the past year, sometimes re-directing on the positives can encourage you to embrace one another’s strengths and hopes for moving forward. This doesn’t mean that you don’t identify and plan for avoiding obstacles, rather that you know and trust you and your partner’s strengths are better combined than divided.
Turning Towards and Celebrating Wins
Turning towards your partner in response to bids for connection is one strategy for building emotional intimacy in the relationship. Similarly, you can celebrate the small wins through noticing when your partner or you are taking steps toward your best hopes for the relationship. Catch your partner “doing good” and see if you can do the same for yourself!
Sustaining New Year’s Intentions
Building a stronger marriage in the New Year doesn’t have to be complicated. You can sustain your New Year’s Intentions through re-visiting your goals on a timely basis that works for each of you. For some couples, this might be every week, but for others it may be on a quarterly period. Find a way to check in about your goals that works for you and your relationship.
Wrapping Up The New Year with “The Miracle Question” and Gottman Methods Therapy
Both Solution-Focused Therapy and Gottman Methods Therapy are approaches you can use to improve communication and embrace couple strengths in your relationship. Reflecting on your ideal relationship for 2025, identifying shared goals, and setting small and actionable steps will help you attain your best hopes for you and your partner. Remember that New Year relationship growth doesn’t have to be complicated, and improving your marriage this year can be as simple as asking, “What if we woke up tomorrow and everything changed for the better?”
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