More Aussies ready for relationship help

AdelaideNow... More Aussies ready for relationship help:

"Yet about a quarter of the survey's participants agreed with the statement 'if you have to receive counselling about a relationship, it's probably too late''."


Yes, it sounds a bit weird that a lot of people would seek relationship help but would think it's too late. I think we are good at being optimistic pessimists! I think most Australians are good at asking for help when they need it and we tend to talk about a lot of things so it becomes easy to seek help in a group context. There isn't a stigma attached to not knowing here and people tend to offer help freely and think nothing of it. What we don't do is offer help unless it is obviously needed or unless we are asked. That sometimes means people think we are unhelpful but we think it's interfering. We think people will know when they need help or not. So I suppose with relationships people will ask ofr help when they are in trouble and will seek out advice, but they do not necessarily think that will help any. We are often kicking ourselves for not noticing things have deteriorated and then once we decide to act we just go for it and do our best to repair damage, whatever that might be.