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Personal Narrative: My Journey To Couples Therapy

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My child Gillian has been developing well since our last discussion. She continues to excel in her academics and musical and artistic talents. She enjoys hanging out with her friends and has taken up playing soccer and softball. As for the rest of my family, my partner and I have gone through a bit of a rough patch. We began arguing about many things, such as our finances. Our fights would get so bad that one of us would sometimes leave the house for a short period of time. However, after being on and off for a couple of years my partner and I began going to couples therapy, and are relationship has improved immensely. On a much happier note, my other daughter Devon has also been developing well and gets along pretty great with her older sister

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