Couple: Can we change his or her partner?

Audio 48:30

How to react if your partner asks you to change?

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By: Raphaëlle Constant Follow |

Amelia Beaucour

49 mins

In 100% of couples, a moment arises when one partner wants to change the other.

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After the idyll at the beginning, couples' relations often evolve towards more tension, the partner's faults appear exacerbated, we lose patience ... We would like the other to change, so that it becomes as before.

For many therapists, change is possible, but it is difficult, long and sometimes painful work.

We must therefore not be too insistent at the risk of the other settling into inertia.

Why this need to change the other?

How to react if your partner asks you to change?

Should we accept it? 

With :

Florentine d'Aulnois Wang

, couple therapist and author of 

The Keys to Amorous Intelligence 

(Larousse, 2018). 

And at the end of the program, the portrait of Céline, seamstress and stylist in Lomé, Togo, she created her small business thanks to microfinance. 

Raphaëlle Constant 

met her in her studio. 

Musical programming:

 Brandt Rhapsodie, Benjamin Biolay and Jeanne Cherhal

Blow You Away (Delilah)

- Blue Lab Beats

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