Falling in love is never a straight line to “happily ever after.” Relationships go through seasons of change, renewal, darkness, and light. So, what’s a couple to do? Long-time therapist and couple’s coach Linda Carroll offers specific, effective solutions to the most common struggles that couples face. She uses the Love Cycles model, which explains that relationships develop in predictable stages — The Merge, Doubt and Denial, Disillusionment, The Decision, and Wholehearted Love-— each of which presents its own challenges. Understanding these stages can bring us to where we really want to be, in the arms of lasting love.

Linda Carroll is the author of Love Skills and Love Cycles. While she has worked as a therapist and couple’s coach for over three decades and has acquired numerous certificates and degrees along the way, she says that her own thirty-five-year marriage is the primary source of her knowledge when it comes to the cycles of love. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon.

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