North Star Conversations Transcript: Jason Price on Why Long-Term Couples Still Need Help
North Star’s Brandon Gimbel talks with couples therapist Jason Price, LMFT, about how relationship challenges shift across the lifespan—from early communication breakdowns to the long-term accumulation of emotional wounds. Jason explains how therapy helps couples reconnect by repairing old patterns and creating new ones.
Brandon Gimbel (00:00)
I hadn't thought about the couples who've been together for a long time as that length of time potentially being a problem or contributing to the problem. What you're describing is it's a double-edged sword.
Jason Price (00:09)
Yeah,that's right. In some ways, there's a sense of "we're connected, that we know each other, we're in this for the long haul," which can be great. But there could be so many hurts over time. And it doesn't have to be the major things like infidelity or abuse or things like that. It's kind of the death by a thousand cuts of feeling slighted over and over and over again or rejected or intimidated, all the different kind of things that can happen. And then it's having to get couples to take a leap of faith that things can be different. And that's, I think, the beginning stages of couples therapy for longer term couples is how do you set the framework that says, we're not going to resolve all those old issues today, but we're going to understand how they fit into the context of your marriage and then kind of create a new path.